The main strategy was to find which could be the most representative motives , as shown by different sketches …
I’ve end with a different approach, which combines some of the previous ideas, and where I wasn’t too much concerned to be realistic, but rather poetical… and poetry and colour are the main missings of the site (from my point of view) .
The final choice was, then, organised into three different interlocking areas, representing in some way: the past , present and the future, using different techniques in each one, including the use of iron, to produce the sculptural elements on both sides of the central panel.
For the background on the first part of the mural - natural elements found on site (sand, pebbles and shells) to give it texture as context…and choosing rusted iron, which texture suggests the passage of time, and contrasts to the shiny new metallic surfaces intended to the other side as a reference to the future…and with ceramics and glass, applied over the wall.
The central panel, planned as a painting, is composed by poetical elements and historical references (the Piel Castle -celebrated by Wordsworth) as to the existing wild life, with some unique species, in terms of fauna and flora, and of course the proximity of the sea… Those are the elements I find myself more interesting and representative of the place…and which could get a more universal appreciation, from the people living there as from visitors.
So, my work combines this positive perspective, and, as I cannot ignore what is being produced on the other side of that wall, it also includes a very subtle, non-ostensive criticism, that determined my choice for the sculptural shapes used: in one side, the vegetal elements on iron, like growing up from the ground, referencing its origins and richness, as on the other side, a dove- symbol of freedom and peace- answering to the context, like saying that is also possible to create and hope more beautiful things made from iron, instead of war weapons…
I’ve end with a different approach, which combines some of the previous ideas, and where I wasn’t too much concerned to be realistic, but rather poetical… and poetry and colour are the main missings of the site (from my point of view) .
The final choice was, then, organised into three different interlocking areas, representing in some way: the past , present and the future, using different techniques in each one, including the use of iron, to produce the sculptural elements on both sides of the central panel.
For the background on the first part of the mural - natural elements found on site (sand, pebbles and shells) to give it texture as context…and choosing rusted iron, which texture suggests the passage of time, and contrasts to the shiny new metallic surfaces intended to the other side as a reference to the future…and with ceramics and glass, applied over the wall.
The central panel, planned as a painting, is composed by poetical elements and historical references (the Piel Castle -celebrated by Wordsworth) as to the existing wild life, with some unique species, in terms of fauna and flora, and of course the proximity of the sea… Those are the elements I find myself more interesting and representative of the place…and which could get a more universal appreciation, from the people living there as from visitors.
So, my work combines this positive perspective, and, as I cannot ignore what is being produced on the other side of that wall, it also includes a very subtle, non-ostensive criticism, that determined my choice for the sculptural shapes used: in one side, the vegetal elements on iron, like growing up from the ground, referencing its origins and richness, as on the other side, a dove- symbol of freedom and peace- answering to the context, like saying that is also possible to create and hope more beautiful things made from iron, instead of war weapons…
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