Quite remarkable to have a duet of poems now nailed into David Rickard’s sculpture, Timelapse, on display in Kielder Forest, overlooking a Lake. David’s brilliant artwork will sit on permanent display and my poems, spelt out with copper nails, will alter in appearance as time ebbs. David was very generous to allow me to be part of this commission, it’s our third collaboration, and we spent a good year meeting and discussing the idea and project. I wrote a series of texts, poems, about time, fundamentally and with David’s help, they were revised and edited into a pair. One is above, as people walk into the sculpture, and one below, and they respond to that physical, material reality, as well as to each other. http://www.david-rickard.net/news.html Why not go to Kielder forest just to read my poems?
From the Kielder website kielderartandarchitecture.com/art-architecture/timelapse.html London-based sculptor David Rickard's new sculpture is now a feature of the Lakeside Way on the south side of the Bull Crag peninsula. 'Timelapse' is a structure that invites visitors to take in the view, and while there, ponder the slippery nature of time passing. In describing his proposal the artist says: 'The sculpture ‘Timelapse’ arrives from the underlying materials that define Kielder Water & Forest Park; timber and time. With trees typically growing in Kielder Forest for several decades before harvest the forest itself reflects various timespans through the scale of the trees in different plantations. This layering of time in the landscape is also present within the growth rings buried within the timber of individual trees. Once trees are felled, time continues to govern the production of timber as a period of seasoning or drying is required before it can be put to use. A process often fast-forwarded with kiln drying, but traditionally taking several months or even years with the wood carefully stacked to allow air circulation. As visitors approach the sculpture ‘time-lapse’ their first impression might be of a large stack of timber drying within the heart of the forest. Harvested at Kielder, this neat mass of timber embraces the materiality of the forest whilst also forming a minimal sculpture in juxtaposition to the surrrounding landscape.'
