Stone Tendrils
Material – sandstone, site specific, steel and cement fondu
Price – nfs
For me, this piece absolutely represents growth.
However, there is a juxtaposition in the use of stone making it utterly static and the idea of such weighted materials balancing and incongruously upon one another challenges our idea of physics.
Perhaps in some ways I am also making a nod towards the incredibly steep rocky outcrops that appear up and down the sides of the Lower Wye Valley gorge.
The AONB demonstrates a splendid variety of geological outcrops, and it has long since been a climber’s paradise with many notable routes created up these rock faces which are more importantly home to the Peregrine falcons, numerous bird species and plants like the rare sorbus.
We have so far witnessed one rare visit from the Red Kite often considered to be the national bird of Wales. We look forward to them taking up residence alongside the growing numbers of buzzards which were also once endangered. I see so much species loss, it is really important to acknowledge the gains.
The stone used here is sandstone collected from around the garden.
In the same way as the rocky out crops of the valley I love watching these stone tendrils as the seasons turn around them.
They stand bearing witness- the snow rests upon them in winter, squirrels perch on them to feed, the robin watches us dig over the soil and the ivy tries to wrap itself around them.
I also feel an affinity here with my visits to the ancient stones of Wales and how they hold memory back to a time when we were far more in tune with the earth echoing the Celtic knots to be found etched into those living stones.
The next QR code is on the other side of the path behind the tree