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The Sculpture
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| Grid Point is a fifteen foot high, four sided, tower-like structure. Made from Scots pine prepared in the Dunecht Estate sawmill nearby and constructed at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, using carpentry techniques, the sculpture is a reminder that timber grown in the forest has commercial and practical uses. The wooden grids echo the regular planting pattern of the trees, but also refer to maps. Both the title of the work and the shape of its structure, part triangulation point/ part light house, suggest that it indicates a precise location. However, rather than just drawing our attention to the immediate landscape, Marion refers to a wider area. She was inspired by many features of the North-East; the agriculture, the architecture and the sea. Consequently, elements of her sculpture recall forms and structures such as harrows, beehives and doocots. She does not intend the sculpture to be a replica of any of these, but to suggest many things. She hopes that visitors to the forest will decide for themselves what her sculpture looks like. The ambiguous nature of this doorless tower gives it a puzzling and slightly fairy tale quality appropriate to the dark forest setting. Just beyond the sculpture is the entrance to a cave, now blocked up, but once used by robbers hiding in the forest. |
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