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thesweetcheat Oct 11, 2018 18:57:50
Replying to moss

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

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 11, 2018 19:19:49
Replying to thesweetcheat

"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:

H Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Oct 11, 2018 20:35:11
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
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
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.