An Enlightened Stand

Donald Urquhart – Farra Grain – 1998

Photograph from a postcard, taken by Donald Urquhart 

Material: Stone

Trail: Silurian Way

Size: Approx’ 30 x 40 feet

Theme: Light

Form: Representational – shadows

Maps Featured on: 2000 – 2006

Status: Decommissioned, minimal remains still visible June 2019

Quote from the Artist: “The area occupied by the work has, literally been marked out as a space of reflective significance – a plane for contemplation upon time and space, nature and art.”

Photograph from a newspaper cutting

Situated at Farra Grain inbetween the Silurain way and Farra Grain Gill. Here the entirety of a square of forest floor was covered in white gravel chips, with the exception of a few gaps forming the trees shadows. The image above shows it when it was new. The distinction between the white gravel and brown forest floor is extremely pronounced.

Photograph Taken 2012

Unfortunately the only photo I have is from 2012, by this time a build up of leaf litter has obscured most of the gravel making the once distinctive ‘shadows’ less clear. By 2017 it is pretty much completely gone, the gravel having been covered over and in some places moved aside and some trees felled.

Page Last Updated November 2020