Sanctuary
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 17, 2018, 15:35
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Howburn Digger wrote: The solution is really quite simple and involves no crime or expensive solutions or even enforcing the power of the Law (or creating new Laws). It simply requires any concerned citizens invoking the power of a couple of Newton's existing Laws and the force of Earth's gravity. We had a really enjoyable half hour lobbing melon-sized stones at these stone-stacked "creations" near Imachar. The following day my well-trained 16 year old cleared the piles on the beach boulders at the front of King's Caves in about 20 minutes. At Torrylinn we "re-wilded" the boulder area in less than 10 minutes, but that was about the fifth day of our Arran jaunt and we were really up to speed by then.
Then we built a bonfire of dream catchers.
Sounds easy HD but not that simple on Stowe's Pound, a Neolithic Enclosure with an amazing defensive wall of random granite stones around it. Stones are removed and taken into the centre of the pound where large boulders are lying around and build their fairy castles on them. When finished they are either pushed over or left for somebody else to do it for them. You can't just take them back to the wall and place them back into the same positions they came from as they are not pieces of a jigsaw puzzle! We spend hours up there selecting the best position for each stone, the only clues being those with growth on then obviously coming from an exterior position!
Do that a few times after a long walk there and back and the pleasure of 'putting things right' soon disappears!
https://youtu.be/IBvqefJ9Gkc
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moss
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Re: A growing trend
Aug 21, 2018, 11:05
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/17/stone-stacking-instagram-environment-adventure-tourism
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thelonious
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 10, 2018, 20:25
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Interesting piece, mentions signage as well which can be a bit in your face sometimes on hills.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/signs-sticks-and-stones/0018639/
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drewbhoy
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 10, 2018, 21:32
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thelonious wrote:
Ace web site tho.
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moss
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Edited Oct 11, 2018, 07:34
Re: A growing trend
Oct 11, 2018, 07:31
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thelonious wrote:
The article raises interesting questions, not just signage though but about
land art. Richard Long walking tours creates modern stones path, circles and cairns. He could be like Banksy who vandalises/creates art on the surface area of buildings or in Long's case vandalising/creating art in wild unspoilt places.
http://www.richardlong.org/sculptures.html
Perhaps people should have 'play areas' for their art work. I noticed yesterday, that, presumably pagans, have marked Pentre Ifan with a triskele and heart. I blame it on society - the cult of individualism and ignorance......
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thesweetcheat
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 11, 2018, 18:52
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drewbhoy wrote: thelonious wrote:
Ace web site tho.
It's a great website for routes. Signage can be a bit in your face, especially at "obvious" sites where the signs don't have to be right up against the monument really. This one is poor placement: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/127817/carn_gluze.html.
But on the other hand where it helps reduce ignorance and damage it's no bad thing - I was reminded of this one that thelonious and I have both visited:http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/9313/kinderlow.html (not sure how long-lasting the notice will be, but at least it makes it obvious what's occurring).
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thesweetcheat
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 11, 2018, 18:57
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moss wrote: I noticed yesterday, that, presumably pagans, have marked Pentre Ifan with a triskele and heart. I blame it on society - the cult of individualism and ignorance......
Aaargh. As likely to just be idiots as pagans though.
In respect of Banksy (and other Bristolian graffiti artists), I must admit that I love seeing the large-scale art on the sides of Bristol's buildings. But not keen on the idea of creating permanent or semi-permanent stuff in the proper outdoors, unless it's in a defined/controlled place like a sculpture park. I prefer Andy Goldworthy's epheremal stuff with leaves: https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/10/14/14/goldsworthy-sycamore.jpg?w968h681
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nigelswift
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 11, 2018, 19:19
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"But not keen on the idea of creating permanent or semi-permanent stuff in the proper outdoors"
Agree about not permanent (EH at Tintagel for instance) but I loved this at the Rollrights recently https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=witches+rollright&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO_IeY__7dAhXsLsAKHXu7AksQ_AUIDigB&biw=911&bih=409#imgrc=6T8dXT-3iXJDpM:
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thesweetcheat
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 11, 2018, 19:58
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I must say I like temporary sculpture in general very much. Visits to Worcester and Bristol over the last couple of months have been much-enhanced by themed trails of giraffes and Gromits etc and I miss them now they've gone, the places seem dull without them.
Those Rollright sculptures are really well done (and not very permanent).
Somehow though I feel I'd *really* like them if I came across them in a field somewhere, but like them less as an addition to a site that's already great in its own right. I guess my (laboured) point is that for me prehistoric sites don't need enhancements.
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Howburn Digger
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Re: A growing trend
Oct 11, 2018, 20:35
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thesweetcheat wrote:
Snap. I am fine with Goldsworthy's delightful ephemeral pieces. His less ephemeral pieces blur a line between Nature, utilitarian, Sculpture, Landscape and Art. I'll be driving past this one near Goldsworthy's studio at Penpont on Saturday. His sculptural work is all over Galloway and is inobtrusive, considered and relevant. I love it. I have seen some of it so often over the years they have become like old friends whom I'll greet on the way past.
https://goo.gl/maps/vuWWSJzetqz
His fine Striding Arches at Cairnhead are a triumph. You can see them as landmarks from a distance, monumental commemorative public art works or hardly see them at all. Even very close up they can be almost invisible.
http://www.stridingarches.com/striding.html
I like to pop by this Abersoch cave when down visiting Auntie Betty.
https://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/images/l/ag_05392.jpg
Check out the Goldsworthy Archive.
https://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/archive/
That's the way to do it. What is it that differentiates Goldsworthy's work from the thousands of ugly, clunky stone piles in the Fairy Glen on Skye?....I think it something to do with the light touch, thought, placement in the landscape and craftsmanship.
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