A collaboration with Michael Fairfax. 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
THE ARC OF HEAVEN
(my title, provisional only)
work-in-progress
expected  installation
September 2008
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
TEXT/DESIGN has 3 elements:

ARCH & GROUND: author-adapted quotes from Richard
Hooker's 'On Ecclesiastical Polity'

GLASS CENTRAL PANEL: paean to the Heavitree Yew

SITTING AREA OVER THE ROAD: the 'reminiscence'
voice of Heavitree