Sculpture in the Parklands
2002-2010
Lough Boora Triangle
2002
A space for meditation. A small triangular room with a very special atmosphere.
Built around an iron frame, three black bog oak trunks will form the corners. Shaped irregular pieces of bogwood will form the somewhat transparent walls. The narrow entrance will be marked by a triangular serpent stepping plate. Inside will be a yew seat where visitors will be able to sit looking out of the narrow entrance toward the horizon.
Jorn Ronnau (Denmark)
Jorn Ronnau’s contemplative and time based Meditation Space, enables the visitor to actually sit down within 4000 year old yew and bogwood stacked like firewood in the triangular space. The landscape peers into and can be seen through the openings in these permeable nature walls, for nature is the membrane of our consciousness and the materials we live by. Indeed, nature is the art of which we are a part. … Indeed we ourselves and the materials we live by are time based, and the serpent stepping plate at the entrance is a simple tribute to the ancients, and the cultures we stem out of as peoples. Though the serpent could be threatening, it is also a friend guardian in this place. Framed in iron at its edges and with a seat made of yew, this is a truly accomplished and site sensitive work of nature, and a work of art as well!
John Grande Art/Nature Dialogues
Lough Boora International Sculpture Symposium 2002
work in progress
Photographs: James Fraher
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