Chris Booth – Grizedale Tarn – 1995
From Grizedale Archive
Material: Stone
Trail: Grizedale Tarn Trail
Theme: Transport
Form: Representational – Plane
Maps Featured on: None
Status: Still in situ, damaged Dec 17
Jutting out of the huge outcrop of rock at the western edge of Grizedale Tarn. 3 large stone slabs sticking out of the rock face, one of which has a stone plane sitting on it. Above is how it looked when new.
This sculpture is not listed on any maps. Created in 1995 it must have been damaged quickly and not considered worth mentioning on subsequent maps. A heavy snowfall caused the rock already weighted with a heavy plane, to snap. The rock was a repurposed gate post from the forest. As a gate post it had holes in it which caused a weakness which gave way.
Photographs taken December 2017
This is an example of how a sculpture can fall through the cracks of the maps. I can’t imagine many people saw it when it was intact. Being constructed from stone however, it is mostly still in situ. The plane is about three meters to the left of where the stone slab landed, it must have rolled when it came crashing down.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
In Celebration Of A Tor – 1993
Artist’s Website: www.chrisbooth.co.nz
Page last updated April 2020
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