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Portrait of Sculptures and Places VII

Eric Geddes 1982

The final installment in Eric Geddes' septet, this was, if you like, an inverted version of 'Portrait of Sculptures and Places III' and was situated up at Moor Top, making it the most isolated of the magnificent seven. All of the sites were carefully selected, as Geddes suggests in 'A Sense of Place':

"The structures were made in response to particular places in the forest; perceptions of walls and wildlife, quarries and fells, forestry and weather; feelings of enclosure and openness, of growth and transition. I have used indigenous materials, with the minimum of factoring, to create metaphors for this experience. Though they are abstract in appearance, the forms used have a cultural history and potency as primary symbols which I value and seek to extend."

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