Emma Posey – Ormandy Intake – 1993
Material: Wood
Trail: Grizedale Tarn Trail
Theme: Building
Form: Abstract
Maps Featured on: 1994 – 2006, ?
Status: Removed, no remains
Quote from the artist – “I found myself echoing the hills and valleys. The terrain is a container for the lakes, like a boat is also a vessel… I want the shapes to compliment the forest, to sit quietly among the trees. I wanted to build a round, smooth structure in contrast to the vertical trunks, and imagined the beginnings of trees as seeds with their curves and folds. I hope people explore the structure and use it as a base to observe the space around. I want the shapes to compliment the forest, to sit quietly amongst the trees.”
This was a large wooden orb located on the path up from the visitor centre towards Ormandy Intakes. The sculpture had an opening which you could enter through. The top had a circular hole in, an oculus, like a church, to let light in. The curved walls inside also encourage people to lean back and look up through the hole to see the outside. Being a very wet location this did mean it was often wet inside the orb.
Photo by Bill Grant
Originally sited in amongst a plantation, the trees were clear felled in the mid 2000s. It survived the felling, suddenly much more visible, no longer contrasting the vertical trees but a lone orb in an open expanse. Open to the full brunt of the weather it was removed not long after this. It was last listed on the 2006 map.
Page last updated Jan 2021
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