Song by Toots Hibbert, the “soul man” of Reggae. I had the pleasure of seeing him live at the peak of his powers over 40 years ago. As usual with my titles, it’s just a play on words. The last post looked at Monk Bond in some detail, noting a variant by Klint which uses the horizontal rhythm (stretcher, stretcher, header or S-S-H) but stacks up vertically in a different way.
The result is a kind of diagonal drift, but in the practical reality of windows, piers and colour variations … an irregular rhythm with is difficult to follow, except by marking up the headers in photoshop.
I did some studies using the Revit brick families I created a year or so ago. I don’t have very good source material for his interiors, but there is some evidence that he used a second version indoors. Why would this be? This is all conjecture, but I see the overlapping headers as a way of strengthening the tie-back function. It could be that he likes the complexity of the pattern, but…