Project Construct
I was (I am) looking for a new project, perhaps for the next five years or so. I thought of building a house, in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, sadly there is insufficient Falling Water in these parts.
I thought I saw it in York, in the late 1980s but perhaps my memory is playing tricks. The medicine wheel was a year-long project I believe, collecting one object every day of the year, and assembling them onto the circular frame, of wood and paper.
I turned to the idea of building cairns, a la Chris Drury, this appears to be a much more achievable project. I particularly cared for his Seven Sisters Cairns in Sussex, unfortunately there is no image on the internet, so instead I show you his Medicine Wheel, from Leeds City Art Gallery.
I thought I saw it in York, in the late 1980s but perhaps my memory is playing tricks. The medicine wheel was a year-long project I believe, collecting one object every day of the year, and assembling them onto the circular frame, of wood and paper.
Maybe my five-year project could be to make five of these, but in a triangle type form to become the five sides of a pentagonal pyramid. Like any pyramid, it is self-dual. The regular pentagonal pyramid has a base that is a regular pentagon and lateral faces that are equilateral triangles (Wikipedia).
Here is the poem which the words above took me to:
Triangle
Eighteen untold stories
Of bedrooms, gardens
And torn down houses
Nine pairs of partners
Passing over secrets
As if so to live again
Your fondest moment
My closely
Recollected memory
And the young girl
In Australia, afraid
Of the outdoor khazi
Darkness, light; stairways
And rose red curtains
Spoken unwoken
With a gleam of the eye
Pass it on
Please, won't you
Why don't you
Softly, slowly
Tell me my story
