Wyndings

'The Wyndings', 1996-02, an earthwork sculpture commission in collaboration with Del Geist, for Stirling Council, Stirling, Scotland, coordinated by the art organisation Independent Public Art Inc, Edinburgh. The sculpture lies adjacent to the new roadway leading into the ancient City of Stirling, alongside the River Forth, with views of the Wallace Monument, the 12th Century Bell Tower of Cambuskenneth Abbey and Stirling Castle. The earthwork is 670 feet long,300ft wide, by 48 feet high above the river diminishing to 25 feet. There are walking/cycle paths around the sculpture's perimeter and a hiking trail across the back of the sculpture. The earthwork design is loosely based on an extended Pictish Key Pattern. The evidences show that the Key Patterns of Britain and Ireland arrived many centuries before the Romans, and that the peoples who brought them made contacts in their migrations with the tribes that later became the makers of the Greek Empire. Some of the unique examples of Celtic pagan religious symbols such as knotwork, keys and spirals, carved on cross-slab stones are particular to Scotland and a fine example of a 12th sculpture/earthwork. (Cancelled 2002, at construction phase, due to soil pollution)