Compound For Redundant Symbols

Robert Koenig – Scale Green – 1982

Text from ‘A Sense of Place’ Book 1984. Photograph by Mark Prior

Material: Wood

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Nature

Form: Abstract

Maps Featured on: (?) – 1984 – 1990 

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the Artist: “Trees were cut down to create a view on to the valley below for the benefit of a ranger who has a hide in a tree close by. It is this timber which was used for the sculpture. This site is a steady climb away from the forest trail.”

Located 100 yards off the main path, on a plateau just up the path from The Signpost a similar work by Koenig, at Scale Green. As it was a little way off the Silurian Way Signpost helped people locate the piece. This was a collection of different shaped posts carved from wood. Each individual, there were at least 8 some were very small and here are hidden by bracken.

Photographs by Robzet taken approximately 1996

Quote from the Artist: “I shaped them with a chain-saw and with chisels to give detail. I followed the shape of the wood. The numbers were… quite arbitrary: two very long ones, two medium, and a few smaller… I carved a message on one of the trunks ‘Good people share the Compound with Redundant Symbols’.”

Photograph from Grizedale Archive by Mark Prior

Listed on the 1988 map but not on the 1991, it was still in place in around 1996 with all 6 symbols so I am unsure as to why it was no longer on maps. It must have slowly disappeared over the following years.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Triangular Suspension, Trophies, Multiple Arch – 1982

The Guardians -1982

Signpost – 1982

Private Meeting- 1983

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Artist’s Website: www.robertkoenig-sculptor.com/

 

 

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