'You Make Me Feel Mighty Real' was originally built and displayed at Belsay Hall in Northumberland, and was installed at Grizedale in 2001. It was the work of the design studio FAT, which stands for 'Fashion Architecture Taste'.

 

The sculpture sat where Kees Bierman's 'Black Tower With Sarcophagus' used to be, on the stony track descending from the forest road which makes up the final part of the Millwood Trail. It was a small building in the style of a small Romanesque chapel, and was adorned with tiny, shimmering metallic blue discs on hooks. It must surely go down in history as Grizedale's least-possible-to miss sculpture ever made. It had a couple of seats inside and a little window, and although the exterior was actually black, those small round tags gave the whole thing a sky blue appearance, with dashes of white clouds. Its commanding position made it quite the eye-catcher. You can see in the picture there's a black section near the bottom, where some of the tags have been pinched.

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The song 'You Make Me Feel Mighty Real' was a disco hit for Sylvester in 1978 and the name-check is no coincidence. Sam Jacob from FAT said of the piece:

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"If I remember, it's to do with the fact that the structure is a kind of miniature 3D model of a larger structure that we found a picture of. The fact that it was made using shimmering discs that move in the wind, gives it a kind of apparitional quality that is also in some ways disco-y.

The title also connects through the of idea 'feeling' to the romantic/picturesque idea of the atmospheric folly in the landscape. These also seemed connected to questions of 'realness' and the sensation of a thing."