Wave Wall Dundee
Design Concept
I wanted the work to have different levels of interest. Running alongside a busy road it reads well to passing traffic while having sufficient detail to warrant closer inspection by pedestrians. Within the wall there is a series of small carvings each symbolic of a different aspect of how we through Religion or otherwise attempt to interpret life.
Language
wherever it first appeared is the cradle of the human
universe...'The story of great saviours, is the story of man in
the process of enlightening himself not simply by tools but
through the slow inward growth of the mind...
LorenEiseley 'The Invisible Pyramid'
'cochlea' - part of the ear
responsible for transmitting/ interpreting
the outside world to our inner self
sketch for carving
'About
ourselves there always lingers a penumbral rainbow - what
A.L.Kroeber termed the superorganic - that cloud
of ideas, visions, institutions which hover about indeed
constitute human society....
....is the essential part of man. Through it he becomes what we
call human, and not otherwise.
Loren Eiseley 'The Invisible Pyramid'
'cloud'
early sketch
I learnt a lot of valuable lessons on this project, mainly through things not going to plan, but it also taught me that no problem cannot be solved.
The wall was constructed by Willie Mills Of Balmerino Fife who worked under my guidance. This led on to a working relationship that has proved very valuable to me in later projects.
