Robert Bryce Muir – Wood Heads – 2006
Material: Metal
Trail: Originally Bogle Crag Trail – Now off Millwood Trail
Theme: Humanity
Form: Figurative – Human
Maps Featured on: 2006 – 2020
Status: Moved to Wood Heads October 2021, Still in situ Oct 23
Photographs taken September 2008
Quote from the Artist: “The work is an interpretation of the final conflict between Achilleus and Hector in Homers’ chronicle ‘The Illiad’, a monumental struggle which is both a fight to the death but is also a fight for life.”
“Mea Culpa was created as a sculptural metaphor for the human condition. Its placement within the natural environment allows it to coexist and contrast with nature whilst exposing it to the transformative effects of the elements through oxidisation and decay.”
“The figures are constructed to illustrate what are in effect, complex, dynamic and beautifully engineered machines involved in a dynamic movement with a strong anatomical emphasis reinforcing the nature of their actions.
The artwork took ten years to create 1987-1997. It was originally placed on the Bogle crag trail in 2006. Consisting of two male figures one pulling the rope that lifts the other off of the ground. The men are made out of multiple pieces of steel metal, and are incredibly life like as well as being life sized. After almost a decade in the forest the men are still standing, but the length of rope has broken. The rope that the suspended metal man is holding is still in place.
Photographs Taken December 2014
In October 2021 the sculpture was moved to the other side of the valley due to felling in Bogle Crag Wood. It is now positioned just beyond where ‘Underground Tree’ is on the right of the path.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
Janus – 2017
Artist’s Website: www.robertbrycemuir.com
Page last updated August 2022
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