July 2013 – assessing a potential site with good visitor traffic for a new sculpture to be worked in public, involving the public
Portland Quarry – our block
Day 0 – the lorry arrives at dawn at Pulborough Brooks
Day 2 – visitors passing and interacting with the stone
Press (see ‘Media’ above)
Day 9 – some relief starting to emerge in the block
Day 0 – the 3 tonne stone being lifted from the lorry
Day 11 – Southern Cranes (Wiggonholt) come to move the stone upright
Day 11 – strapping the 3 tonne block
Day 11 – the block is left vertical with its forms randomised
Day 11 – workspace
Day 11 – the rise to the vertical
image used in social media
Day 14
Day 15 – Ann Purkiss/SDNPA image
getting a feel for the Arun landscape
Day 22 – RSPB interpretation
February 2104 – At the Arun Sea
Day 24 – Steve Turner image
Day 26 – break through
Day 27 – visitors handling tools
Day 27 – learning to sculpt
Day 31
BBC Radio Sussex interviewing budding sculptors
Day 39 – texture in cathedral-like space
Day 48 – sculptor (image Alan Turner)
Day 48 – photographer Alan Turner tries mallet and chisel under supervision
Day 54 – cinnabar moth caterpillars everywhere
Day 55 – sculptor working
Uni. of Surrey filmmakers
visiting family learning to use tools to carve stone
last chances to be involved
October 2014 – first mock up for Parish Council meeting
Another gallery of images from Janet Turner here
