How are they are put together

How are the patterns repeated? Symmetrical or Assymetrical. Do you reflect an assymetrical pattern to make it symmetrical? Do you combine two symmetrical patterns to create an assymmetrical one? Did you have enough of the one pattern to finish the job? Do they put in one that didn't match? Did you put in one that didn't match?

On the way to Newcastle

Large walls made of individual blocks make the pattern begin to operate in a different way. How the pattern operates is dependant on many things: on your distance from the wall. The angle it is viewed from, the angle of sunlight, the shadow cast or a reflection.

Bali

Some pierced wall are created by building with unpatterned bricks in patterns. Some made by carving or casting.

In Canberra

Just a few from Australia's capital. These remind me of elements in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Breeze blocks

These walls have been in my life for over 20 years, a view from the kitchen window. The concrete is rotting and the masonry is breaking down. Stan who built these walls has past away. He at the age of 75 used to ride a dragster bike with a small cart attached and ride along the road to collect blue metal from the edges for this concrete mixing.

Cutting of the Y

I was away at the time of the cutting of the Y. Jan took these shots for me. One just before the cutting, the other after the cutting.

Autumn

kare ichigo ware ichigo aki fukami kamo

he says a word
and I say a word - autumn
is deepening

Kyoshi

Haiku, ed: David Cobb, The British Museum Press 2002