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Sat 05 May 2007On the TownScully's construction worksVertical stones standing starkly against layers of horizontal ones were described as central to the Sean Scully show at the Kerlin Gallery, which opened in Dublin this week. "It's a very particular view of the walls of Aran," said Darragh Hogan, a director of the Kerlin Gallery. "They are beautiful documents of a dying tradition . . . And they give a clue as to how he constructs his abstract paintings."Scully's use of the "anonymous art" of stone masons was what captivated film-maker Philip King.