Checkpoint

Andrea Gregson – Kennels – 12/3/2020 – November 2021

Checkpoint

Material: Wood, Metal

Trail: Millwood Trail

Theme: Local History

Form: Hide

Maps Featured on: 2020

Status: Destroyed by fallen trees during Storm Arwen

All photographs taken 20th March 2020

This sculpture forms a hide. One person can duck into the conical shaped structure and peer out through small holes to see into the wood outside. The top remains open which allows you to see a circular view of the tree canopy above.

Burnt into the wood are 44 symbol-like images relating to the forest. Below each photo is the objects name, going from left to right.

1. Mallet 2. Charcoal Burning 3. Red Deer Jawbone 4. Larch Seed 5. Larch Flower

1. Grenade 2. Pine Cone 3. Anvil 4. Coppice 5. Herb Robert 6. Billhook

1. Blacksmith Tongs 2. Tawny Owl Claw 3. Tooth Cross Cut Saw 4. Oak Leaf 5. Boar Jaw Bone

1. Bark 2. Larch Bark Beetle Markings 3. Axe 4. Finger Print 5. Swill Basket 6. Bark Peelers Hut

1. Smelting Spoon 2. Pipistrelle Bat Jaw Bone 3. Blunderbuss 4. Graphite 5. Red Kite Feather

1. Bellows 2. Bracket Fungus 3. Mosser (slag) 4. Larch Needles 5. Charcoal Burners Hut 6. Crinoid Silurian Fossil

1. Fern 2. Sheep Jawbone 3. Chainsaw Blade 4. Cast Iron Cuckoo Clock Weight.              5. Bobbin

1. Bracket Fungus 2.   3. Jaw bone 4. Silurian Fossil 5. Strung Rough Bobbins.                 6. Norway Spruce Cone

Storm Arwen hit the north in November 2021, it toppled innumerous trees especially in the Lake District around the south lakes area. The Millwood trail was badly hit, with very tall specimen trees sited next to an open field, they stood no chance against a hurricane level north easterly wind. Unfortunately when these trees came down they fell on Checkpoint.

Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Seeing Through The Ground Exhibition – 2019

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Artist’s Website: www.andreagregson.co.uk

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