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Night Cry

Pankaj Panwar 1990

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Sited, from what I can gather, at the beginning of the Ridding Wood Trail amongst the rhododendrons, 'Night Cry' was a charming sculpture of four 

howling dogs, which were apparently made of terracotta. I don't know too much about this one, but here is a quote plucked from a career-spanning interview Panwar gave a few years back:

"When I was in England I got the opportunity to create an open-air sculpture in Grizedale Forest, under the site-specific sculpture in the forest scheme. I decided to depict a group of howling dogs looking upwards with their mouths open. To create the feel of sound, I used the technique of working with large clay slabs and modeled it from inside with hand pressure to create the feel of inner breath and a visual equivalent of sound. This life-size work, 'Night Cry', was placed in the forest."

1990 was around the time I had started visiting Grizedale regularly, so I'm a bit puzzled as to why I've never seen this one. I was very young, so maybe I saw it and have since forgotten it. Or maybe I missed it altogether.

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