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Contemporary natural shrines upon the landscape.

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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Jul 1, 2012 10:27:48
Replying to GLADMAN

Ah when Mr Rh and I saw that a couple of years ago we didn't see the 'tributes to loved ones' and thought maybe it was spontaneous art-making and somehow it gathering momentum until everyone who stops there feels like they want to make one too. I mean it is quite a spectacular spot. And there's lots of material hanging about.

I'm trying to think of something similar. I can't though. I can only think of some craze like padlocks on venice's bridges.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Jul 1, 2012 10:35:59
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
Ah when Mr Rh and I saw that a couple of years ago we didn't see the 'tributes to loved ones' and thought maybe it was spontaneous art-making and somehow it gathering momentum until everyone who stops there feels like they want to make one too. I mean it is quite a spectacular spot. And there's lots of material hanging about.

I'm trying to think of something similar. I can't though. I can only think of some craze like padlocks on venice's bridges.

I think it breeds. I've been to the odd place or two where you feel you have an empathy with and inclined to leave a little of yourself behind in some form or other. On the other hand I've brought more stuff away with me :-)

M moss
moss Jul 1, 2012 10:40:13
Replying to Rhiannon

Well not exactly shrines but a marking of the landscape with stones made by Richard Long, who lived, or maybe still lives on the Isle of Lewis.

http://www.richardlong.org/Sculptures/sculptures11.html

I came upon him through the new book of Robert Macfarlane, - The Old Ways, journeying on foot through landscapes and the marking of these journeys by leaving stones in a pattern.
The making of cairns, or the single stones through the stony rugged landscape of Scottish islands can also mark the pathways to the shielings and peat cutting areas.

If you go to the index page he writes....


In the nature of things:
Art about mobility, lightness and freedom.
Simple creative acts of walking and marking
about place, locality, time, distance and measurement.
Works using raw materials and my human scale
in the reality of landscapes.