BOULDER SHELLS
Paper Pulp & Plaster mix; artifacts
VESTIGE: Sculpture, Photography, Performance, Documentation
BOULDER I | GLEN CLOVA | FEBRUARY & MARCH 2010
BOULDER I | VARIOUS HIGHLAND LOCATIONS | JUNE 2010
Paper Pulp Boulder; pulp mix made from recycled paper and flour paste. Minature figure approx 1" tall.
WHITE BOULDER I | DECEMBER 2009
Papier Mache Boulder; chicken wire, modroc, tissue paper, mineral texture gel. Minature figure approx 1" tall.
Featured in the Central Station book; which you can buy, or download (the digital download is free) from here.
In Two Shakes Of A Lamb's Tail
Started June 2010 - Ongoing | All from June 15th 2010, Glen Elchaig
UNDER THE LAISTE | 2010
Stone Circle - Paper Pulp Stones and Stones from Isle of Harris
Boxes - 38x30x30 cm, MDF, acrylic primer, blackboard paint, oil paint
The 3 boxes originated from the suggestion that I was trying to rebuild ruins in my paintings, so they represent building blocks. The text is purposefully ambiguous, but was written in reaction to a Coffin Walk on the Isle of Harris.
9 STONES | 2009
Paper Pulp Stones; hollow stones made from a pulp mix made from recycled paper and flour paste, with poppy seeds added. Apron (see Details below, under photographs).
9 Stones is represented by 4 photographs, each one relating to a cardinal point of the compass. A stone from the White Caterthun, an Iron Age fort to the north of Brechin, was borrowed and cast to then make 9 paper pulp stones. On 6 April 2009 these stones were placed into the land at the White Caterthun. Two were situated at each cardinal point and one in the Well. The idea behind this relates to the disappearance - both natural decay and human destruction - of ancient ruins with the act of giving back "stones" acknowledging this disappearance, which is further symbolised by the addition of poppy seeds, a symbol of death. Poppies are also a symbol of sleep, and therefore a comment on the survival of these ruins, whatever their state, after thousands of years.
"But, as may be expected, though the learned of every age have failed to satisfy themselves regarding the use or gathering together of these stones, local tradition at once solves the mystery, and says that the place was merely the abode of fairies, that a brawny witch carried the whole one morning from the channel of the West Water to the summit of the hill, and would have increased the quantity (there is no saying to what extent), but for the ominous circumstance of her apron-string breaking, while carrying one of the largest ! This stone was allowed to lie where it fell, and is pointed out to this day on the north-east slope of the mountain!" Taken from Page 330 of The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns: 2d ed. by Andrew Jervise