Situated near a former saw pit and surrounded by beech trees, this site possesses a melancholic atmosphere.
The fact that a plane had come down on this very site during the Second World War was discovered by the artist and is now marked by a memorial.
The knowledge of the plane spiralling downward to the forest's floor and the beech saplings zigzagging upwards in search of light influenced
the bronze cone and cylindrical form which constitute the work. The receptacle nature of both objects offer the potential to collect or retain but
also to give or relinquish. The form of these two objects was derived from an extended profile of a branch which had been divided down its full length. Click here to see this sculpture in snow conditions.
The Chiltern Sculpture Trust is happy for visitors to the Trail to interact with this work, as well as appreciate it visually, but
request that this is done sensitively.
Bottom left: Original photograph © Judith Cowan.
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