Last Saturday somehow felt life
the first day of the rest of my life. It was the first official day of my
artist’s residency at Stave Hill Ecological Park (see also First Moves post)
and I spent the day there working by the water, with Chris, cutting
brambles in order to weave with these.
We made twined constructions,inspired by my recent project in Darlington, with view of stacking these vertically to
create a tall column. Conical in shape and joined tip to
tip and base to base in a repeated abstract pattern, the woven piece would some kind of homage to one of my favorite ever sculptures, Brancusi’s Endless Column.
This project didn't exactly go to plan as we ran out of time to produce enough of the twined pieces and install these, skewered on a large pole, in what seemed an ideal spot in the middle of the pond. I did I take off my shoes, rolled up my trousers and waded in, but couldn’t get the post to stand up securely. Luckily Chris missed in the opportunity to record the whole messy business on camera, so my dignity still remains intact, for now. It's only a matter of 'chose remise' however as I’ll have another bash at it next week. I can’t wait, especially as the trees have started changing colour and did look glorious in the autumn evening sun. A gorgeous sight indeed!
This project didn't exactly go to plan as we ran out of time to produce enough of the twined pieces and install these, skewered on a large pole, in what seemed an ideal spot in the middle of the pond. I did I take off my shoes, rolled up my trousers and waded in, but couldn’t get the post to stand up securely. Luckily Chris missed in the opportunity to record the whole messy business on camera, so my dignity still remains intact, for now. It's only a matter of 'chose remise' however as I’ll have another bash at it next week. I can’t wait, especially as the trees have started changing colour and did look glorious in the autumn evening sun. A gorgeous sight indeed!
In the meanwhile, I did try
other ways of installing the woven pieces, but couldn’t decide on where best to place work, this probably on account of not having enough of them to stack up. What we need it
seems is another 50+ items to achieve a sizeable height for the sculpture. As there is
no shortage of brambles on site, this could easily be done. The
great thing about stacking these as illustrated above, is it will allows viewers
to peek into holes in through the centre of the weaving at different heights and in different directions,
framing the view of the park, its surrounding and the sky above.
As we are yet still to see the Brancusi inspired column emerge from the water, it seems a second project at Stave Hill is already on it way. Keep you posted on this…
As we are yet still to see the Brancusi inspired column emerge from the water, it seems a second project at Stave Hill is already on it way. Keep you posted on this…
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