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The Sculpture
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Anne’s sparkling pool of bronze began with the idea of “an enchanted forest”. She associated the wood with magic, myth and folklore and wanted to make something that would appeal to the imagination. She decided “to turn fluid into solid”, and create “a magic pool of water which could be stood upon”. Anne was also interested in the proximity of the forest to the sea and was aware of the constant shuttle of helicopters flying overhead from Dyce to the oil rigs.
It was a difficult task to create the effect that she wanted. After much research and experimentation, she decided to cast her pool on the beach, using the ripples made by the sea in the sand as her mould. She made a circular plaster cast in four segments from which the final bronze version was taken. This was coated in a fool’s gold colour to give it a “shimmering mercury like feel”. The low relief sculpture, weighing about 300 kg, was embedded in the forest floor. The title Moon Pool, refers to the cold and silvery appearance of the work and also to the spring tide at the time of the full moon when she made the cast in the sand. Anne was surprised by another connection, this time with the North Sea, “I discovered that a ‘moon pool’ is the name for the space in the centre of an oil platform where divers are lowered into the sea. (...Magic!)”.
The bands of texts which are placed high on the trunks become aligned at a distance of about ten meters and appear as a tide-mark or high water-line. These are a mix of single words and lines of poetry, which were written by Scottish writer Janice Galloway, to help trigger the imagination and to suggest new and marvellous stories, combining images from the sea and the forest with familiar fairytales. |
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