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Prototype
test section tot High-Fell House door Andrew Sabin, 2012
Voorstel Op het
informatiebord: "Grizedale was once an Estate owned by the grand family
of the Cunard shipping company, the Brocklebanks. Over the generations the
former owners built a series of country houses here, the last of which was
levelled to the ground on this site and only these balustrades overlooking
the landscaped grounds remain. Today Grizedale is a working forest and
instead of generations of Brocklebanks maturing on the estate, swathes of
timber producing trees are grown and unceremoniously harvested in a
continuous cycle of cut and sow. Whereas the abandoned footings of the house
have been macadamised into this car park the abandoned feet of the cropped
trees form a starkly brutal, violently textured blanket across the landscape. "I
propose to bring together the emotive texture of these abandoned stumps and
the idea of 'The Grand Country House' to create a new vision of a stately
home that is part temple of the dead, part fairground catacomb, part moor-top
mausoleum and part lovely place to visit. Just as the abundance of skulls
after the Paris plagues enabled the intricate boney patterns of the catacombs
and the abundance of stone-carvers brought about the fabulous façade of Wells
Cathedral so the abundance of tree stumps within the Forestry Commission's
sphere of operations can enable the creation of a grand façade along with
elaborate stump features punctuating a semi-formed garden."
Test Stump
Window Frame “23
stumps from Grizedale Forest were delivered to me in London to assist in
developing a prototype test section to see whether stump ‘beads’ could be
strung together and supported to create an archtectural façade. It is the
same test piece that now sits in front of the balustrade of the long departed
Grizedale Hall and whose window presently looks down on the vestiges of the
Hall’s stately gardens. Het werk is niet uitgevoerd
Artist
impression andrewsabin.org/index.php?/2013/work/high-fell_house Andrew Sabin (E. 1958)
Beelden in het Grizedale Forest, Lake District Engeland Foto’s: september 2017
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