Logos’ handmade artistic sensibility has permeated other facets of lodge business, as well: As candidates complete their degrees, their accompanying work pieces have begun tending toward mixed media. Patrick Clos, raised in 2018, wrote and performed songs for each of his degree conferrals. (In his spare time, Clos is the frontman of the rock group Cocktails.) Another member, Kevin Jones, is a videographer by day and has been planning a video piece for his degree.

But perhaps the piéce de resistance for Logos is the 20-foot-long floor cloth that members of the lodge designed and hand-painted. The carpet, which candidates are guided along during their Fellow Craft degree, alludes to King Solomon’s temple as an allegory for the soul’s journey. Lodge Chaplain Robert Haines helped design the piece, with an assist from Tucker, who hand-painted it with a wax-based crayon of sorts.

A background in art is by no means a prerequisite at Logos Lodge—in fact outside of Tucker, who runs the San Francisco letterpress shop Aesthetic Union, most members of the 15-person lodge don’t work in the arts. Rather, Tucker says, it’s an appreciation for that DIY spirit that’s the lodge’s main shared value. “It’s that feeling of being able to stand in front of something and be proud of it,” he says, “Like, ‘This came from my brain. And now it’s real.’”