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Harbour

Alan Franklin 1995

Alan Franklin spent a two-month residency in 1995 building 'Harbour', an impressive wooden sculpture encompassing a large area of the densely-packed sitka trees just north of Carron Crag. Involving a mass of wooden beams, fastened together at around waist height and engulfing a large portion of the surrounding woods, there was also a gap running through the middle allowing the viewer to stroll among the work, giving the feeling of walking waist-deep through a brilliant-white lake.

Alan Franklin said of the sculpture:

"'Harbour' is an attempt to build a piece of work which is in empathy with its environment without being sentimental, romantic or backward-looking, and which takes on both the scale and the natural beauty of the forest. Above all it should embody my personal approach to being."

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