The wall is the archive
Oak logs carry soot, pigment, and the touch of village painters in one surface.
01surface / oak
A field guide to living timber
What the timber keeps
A living archive in oak, soot, and village pigment.
Record 08
Oak / pigment
World Heritage, 1999
Verticality makes a promise
A narrow western tower rises above the low body, pulling the eye from threshold to sky.
02silhouette / tower
Colour survives by restraint
Iron red, muted green, and ochre halos glow against the deepest soot.
03pigment / earth
Care begins with the grain
Document each shingle, mural, and joint before weather turns record into fragment.
04method / record