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 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 la...