Hive

Jony Easterby – Ridding Wood Trail (Formerly Great Intake) – 1996

Photo from 2000/1 map in its original location.

Material: Wood, Electronics

Trail: Bogle Crag Trail, Ridding Wood Trail

Theme: Nature

Form: Representational – Beehive

Maps Featured on: 1997 – 2006, ?

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the Artist: “Taking energy from the sun and sky the Hive transfers this into dance of life and light.”

A large wooden bee hive, which contained lights powered by solar power. Originally sited up above Bogle Crag at Great Intake. Which is where I remember first discovering it on a very distinctive tree that remained on a hillside where everything else had been felled.

It was relatively quickly moved down to the Ridding Wood trail so more people would see it. (A good decision as it wouldn’t have been accessible when new growth sprouted on Great Intake). On the Ridding Wood Trail it was sited above a path, making it easy to look up into the hive to see the small lights twinkling, resembling bees. You can just make these out in the photograph below.

Photographs taken 2008

Despite still being in perfect order, Hive was taken away from the trail along with almost everything else in 2011, due to a grant for the installation of Clockwork Forest.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Wind Thrusts – 1996

African Drums – 1999

Marimba – 1999

Frozen Sound– 1999

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

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