The journey for me with this piece is at an end - well for the next few months anyway. It will be on view along with work from the other competition finalists until the end of summer 2010. I am excited by the result; I feel it sits well within the site. The transformation from concept, through the stages of 'growth' in the workshop, to final placement has been different from other works which I have made. The most obvious being that it did physically 'grow' with the continuous coiling of the wire slowly creeping outwards taking on shapes which often seemed to be dictated by factors of chance and natural limitations. Over the next few months the bark bedding will dry and deteriorate and the grasses and ferns are likely to creep in on it again which will be interesting and appropriate. An unexpected aspect has been that when viewed from a distance (as in the photograph) the layers of cableties surrounding the piece become visually compressed, appearing to give it an added 3 dimensional halo effect. I hope that visitors to the gardens will feel encouraged to touch the piece - stroking the hard spikey cabletie ends and contrasting this with the smooth polished surface of the rounded Cotswold stone. This is integral to the experience when considering the piece.
Thanks for their help to:
Paul Gifford of Aventix Workwear (www.itsmykit.com)
Richard Cotterell of Booth & Bomford (http://www.boothbomford.co.uk)
Rinus and Aniet van de Sande of Broomhill Art Hotel (http://www.broomhillart.co.uk)
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