Form now complete. Ready to have supporting columns added.
Crucial day coming up on Wednesday marking out and cutting apertures.
Great to meet Rinus and Aniet at Broomhill for my site visit.
Thank you for your hospitality.
Found perfect spot for my sculpture ‘viewpoint ‘ really looking forward to showing work now.
Very interested in Robert Macfarlane’s new book ‘Landmarks’ and why he champions the importance of language to our continuing connection and understanding of the natural environment
So much of his writing resonates with me in my own work.
He writes in a great article for the Guardian (see above link) how disturbingly he finds out……
‘a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary was published. A sharp-eyed reader noticed that there had been a culling of words concerning nature. Under pressure, Oxford University Press revealed a list of the entries it no longer felt to be relevant to a modern-day childhood. The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow. The words taking their places in the new edition included attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail’
Busy couple of weeks juggling projects
Viewpoint developing well…. Steel ordered and delivered this week.
Originally sculpture was to be fabricated in three sections, however have now, after discussions, decided to form in one piece. This will greatly improve the look of the piece but will force me due to size to work away from studio.
Luckily I am able to work at fabricators in Suffolk with the Pegg family who will assist me with the build.
The first stage will be to create form by bending the steel sheet at an angle to form curl. The sculpture will stand at its highest 2.2m
and approx. 1.50 diameter An opening of 600mm will be the entering point to the structure.
Once the form has been created it will then have its three supporting columns made and attached.
The next and most important stage will be marking and cutting apertures …..
