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Friday, January 25, 2019

A few small installations and other changes on the block

©2019 Fiona Dempster - One of Fiona's assemblages on the rust bench
Much work is being done on the block this January including: a huge amount of pruning; sorting and culling wood; sorting and culling rusty stuff; and creating a couple of sculpture terraces.

Sorting the rust bank lead us to creating a couple of frivolous bits to install on the terraces amongst the trees - things to discover as one walks along.

©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Trial assemblage by Fiona on the rust bench - made from industrial roller bearings and bicycle gears
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Three little assemblages set on one of the terraces under the edge of a tree
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Zigzag assemblage being bolted together  - made from unidentified bits picked up at a garage sale years ago
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Zigzag installed between tree trunks on a lower terrace
Sorting the old timbers in the timber stack lead to the creation of a couple of 450mm cubes made up of 9 450mm lengths of 150mm square timber offcuts. We have installed one cube near the new wooden stepping stone rock-river crossing and a second one down near Graham's orchid house. Again another couple of interesting texture pieces to be discovered on one's walks.

©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Timber cut, ground and carried - ready for assembling
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Cube under a young maple tree
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Looking towards the Peace Book sculpture
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Second slightly ratty cube near the orchid house shed
After removing our coffee plantation - decimated by killer weevils - and about 150 yucca plants we have almost finished creating our two gravel covered sculpture terraces . Each terrace is about 3m wide and 20m long. The dingo machine operator carted the 12 cubic meters of gravel while Fiona and I raked it into shape - fours hours non-stop - we hit a wall that day. We have installed turf at the end of the terraces to give them a soft contrasting finish. Now we need to finish the job by installing more coir logs and jute matting;  and fixing the gravel to the almost vertical sections of woven coir matting.

©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Earthworks replace the coffee plantation - turning four terraces into two
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Gravelled terraces - still need to fix the gravel to the almost vertical sections
©2019 Fiona Dempster  - Laying buffalo grass turf around the end of the two terraces.
Fiona and I just love the fact that the block nurtures us; and through our creativity we nurture it.

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3 comments:

  1. Liz AJanuary 26, 2019 at 12:53 AM

    The bicycle gear assemblages look like topiaries ... and the angular sculpture was well worth waiting for (we too have rusty bits that sit for a while before they announce themselves).

    That's a significant amount of clearing ... Don and I were delighted to find at the end that you are using buffalo grass as cover, which is a favorite of ours. As for "fixing gravel to almost vertical sections," all I can say is "wow"

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  2. Mo CrowJanuary 26, 2019 at 2:37 AM

    love the wood cubes!

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  3. BarryFebruary 3, 2019 at 3:54 PM

    LA and MC - thanks faithful fellow artists - not a lot of folk , sometimes including myself, set aside the time to not only read blogs but leave comments. LA - the bicycle gears assemblages do look like little trees; and fellow collectors and recyclers do understand the need to wait sometimes to find the right use for bits. MC - we smile when we see the cubes - such simple honest shapes. Go well. B

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