MOON POOL
2002
Site specific sculpture commissioned for Tyrebagger Forest with text by Janice Galloway.
The work began with the idea of an ‘enchanted forest’ with associations of magic, myth and folklore – a place to wander with the imagination. The relief sculpture was cast from wave patterns on a beach – fluid turned to solid, a magic pool of water to stand upon. Surrounded by lines of poetry, specially commissioned from the writer Janice Galloway, which from a distance, look like a water mark or tide line.
Commissioned by the Tyrebagger Trust
Photography: Michael Wolchover/ Anne Bevan
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MOON POOL
Text by Janice Galloway
NO FAERIES IN THIS HOLLOW WOOD, JUST MERMAIDS OUT OF PLACE
SQUIRRELS BURY TREASURE UNDER SPLASH GREEN LEAVES
BONE
SIGNS IN THE FOREST MAKE A LIGHTHOUSE FLARE
BEWARE OF ICE. BEWARE THE THREE WHITE BEARS
ROCK
A MAGPIE AND A PIRATE FLAG, A TABLE TURNED TO SOLID GROUND
THE GRASS COCOONS A MOON ROCK, SHARDS, A ROCKET HIDE
SALT
A SEA SWELL, A METAL WELL, TURNS FOOL’S GOLD TO WISHES
A SILVER ACE, A SEA QUEEN, CARDLESS TRICKS MADE OUT OF LIGHT
HIDE
SUMMER CANNOT THAW THESE MINERAL WAVES, THIS POOL
THESE FINE SALT GLISTERED BANDS
SILVER
WITCHES HAVE NO POWER HERE. THE NORTH SEA SLICKS
THEIR SKIN TO BUTTER, HANGS ITS SHEETS TO DRY
ICE
WHAT’S WHISPERING BEHIND YOU, A SOUND LIKE TIDE?
A FOREST’S GHOST, A MARINER, LOST, A MOUTHLESS, BONELESS CRY
WOOD