The sculpture is being built at a secret location near Rawreth. Due to the nature of the design, it is now being made out of Marine Plywood not coppiced wood as originally planned. It is being built as if it were a giant puzzle. Jeff Hatt and John Parker have been working on it for weeks now, and it finally looks to be coming together.

One of my jobs has been to make DIY buoys from used plastic bottles (pictured). These should help the divers find the sculpture parts again. The individual sculpture parts will be weighted down with horseshoes for charm, luck and in reference to the Blacksmith who used to store his horse-shoes in the stream that now feeds the reservoir. I bought the shoes from Carl the Farrier, who will be buying what we find back again next week. I loved the idea of weighing down this sculpture with a ton (literally) of charm and luck. Errr, not quite… if you want good luck you aren’t supposed to buy NEW horse-shoes and I bought a thousand of them. Carl the Farrier will be taking the horseshoes back after they have been used as weights and it is hoped that they will return to the fields of Essex on the feet of many horses.

So, each of the 30 odd sculpture parts will be weighted AND buoyed.

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