Decomposers

Karl Ciesluk – The Common – 1995

From Grizedale Archive Image Reversed To be Correct Way Around

Material: Stone, etching

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Nature

Form: Figurative – Worm

Maps Featured on: 1997 – 1999

Status: No Remains

Sited near Grizedale Tarn this artwork is on the small path that cuts across the hillside, parallel to the Silurian Way.  The photograph above, depicts a worm lightly carved, or painted into a rock face.

I don’t have any information about this sculpture other than the photo from the archive, which I first saw in 2014, about 15 years after I first looked for it.

I was never able to find this sculpture, even back in the early 00s trees had overgrown the area where it was. It must only have been visible for a short period, I wonder how many people did actually see it… It was sited a few meters off the track, on a rocky outcrop. I’ve only recently tracked down its exact location. (The image in the archive being the wrong way around was a slight hinderance). 

There is no sign of the sculpture on the rock which leads me to believe if it was a carving it was extremely lightly done. The rock is covered in lichen, I can only deduce the worm was lightly etched into the lichen, rather than carved into the rock. The name referring to both ‘decomposers’, the worm that was created and the lichen that formed the canvas.

Photograph taken by Reece Ingram 1997

The waymarker for this artwork was a large bat. It was sited in 1997 just off the forest track next to the small footpath heading up to Decomposers. This was so far from the sculpture it in no way helped locate it. This could well have been because by this time (2 years after Decomposers was cereated) it was already impossible to find. This maker was in 2000 destroyed by Grizedale Arts.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Natural Forces – 1995

Only One Fish Left – 1995

 

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