There is always that time when working on a sculpture project that suddenly you look around and you can suddenly see things coming together. For a moment you can enjoy all your hard work and then you look the other way and you see more un-carved dimension blocks everywhere and you realise there is still a lot more to do. I have really wanted to wash the 'seed stack' stones to see them at their best, but they wouldn't stay dust free for long! It won't be until they are installed on site that I can truly appreciate the colour, texture and forms within the stone. I decided to order a Portland Limestone plinth base for this work as the bottom sphere was originally going to sit on the ground. This new plinth is 350 mm high and will elevate the bottom stone to enable you to see the shape and curve of the sphere, this will also make the sculpture very stable. It would be great to create more multiples of these 'seed and conker' forms. I can see now how effective they could be, scattered individually around the base of a large tree or upon a leafy woodland floor...For the time being I will have to make do with the concrete floor in the workshop.
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