A collaboration with Michael Fairfax and
Peter Osborne. A 'gateway' series of
linked works on both sides of one of the
main roads into Exeter as part of major
environmental improvements to
Heavitree, Exeter
(Exeter City Council & Devon County
Council)
Peter Osborne. A 'gateway' series of
linked works on both sides of one of the
main roads into Exeter as part of major
environmental improvements to
Heavitree, Exeter
(Exeter City Council & Devon County
Council)
VOICES OF HEAVITREE
| TEXT ON ARCHES & GROUND If the world should lose her qualities if celestial spheres should forget their wanted motions if nature should intermit her course and leave altogether the observation of her own laws if the moon should wander from her beaten way the times and seasons blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture what shall become of man who sees not plainly that obedience unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world? |
| TEXT ON SITTING AREA OVER THE ROAD Everything was what we had you see and the hours wafted slow from Sweetbrier Lane over that way that was all fields as green and new as the Yanks lined up around the park shivering in the wind that blows through and out and beyond oh pretty maids all in a row, in a row and Pritchard the Parky’s pretty maids all in a row we strolled forever down the lane into the allotment over the stile cut through to Wanford House overhead the drone and drone and in our noses the smell of rubber you couldn’t breathe in the bloomin’ things Goal! Cliff Bastin scores six for Ladysmith then up the Horse & Jockey for a glass from the Heavitree Brewery |
| TEXT & DESIGN OF GLASS CENTRAL PANEL |
| THE TEXT/DESIGN has 3 elements: ARCH & GROUND: author-adapted quotes from Richard Hooker's 'On Ecclesiastical Polity' (16th century) GLASS CENTRAL PANEL: paean to the Heavitree Yew (Ralph Hoyte) SITTING AREA OVER THE ROAD: the 'reminiscence' voice of Heavitree, extracted from interviews with residents |
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