Hi,
Sorry for the lack of posts in the last two weeks, unfortunately my mother-in-law, Pat has, sadly passed away after a long illness… she will be greatly missed.
I would like to dedicate this to her.
Pat shared my passion and enthusiasm for the natural environment, and understood its importance to our general well being and happiness. As a teacher all her life, she recognised the positive effect that having time outside had on her students. Playing a key role in developing and securing their positive relationship with the landscape through to their adult lives.
Pat like myself was concerned with the growing change in both attitudes and freedom to be outside, especially for children. With so much of their time centred around seemingly experiencing life first through a phone or screen of some kind.
Pat was very excited by my proposed sculpture ‘Viewpoint’ with its theme to engage the audience with the landscape, and was very excited with its inclusion in the finals of the Broomhill Sculpture Prize.
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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’
