Today started with Jeff and John, the fabricators, being interviewed live on the BBC Radio Essex breakfast show. I was at the reservoir for 7 to prepare for the day.

At 11am we deposited the sculpture in the Reservoir. The weather was windy, rainy, cold and pretty dramatic.  Jonathan and Tim Sedgewick (pictured) brought their dinghy and years of experience of all-weather boating with them. Even the wildlife was struggling in the wind - when we arrived at the Reservoir we were told about a distressed bird at the waters-edge. Jonathan deployed his craft straight away to try to help it.

There were 40 sculpture parts, home-made buoys and 1000 horse-shoes strewn on the banks of Rochford Reservoir - all waiting to be put together before being taken out on the boat and put in the water. Jeff, the brains behind the ingenious design, was pretty upset to see his work disappear. I enjoyed watching it being hurled in - but then, I hadn’t spent the past 6 weeks designing and making it.

There was much speculation about what the sculpture actually was.

Thanks to Tim Head for inspiring the title of this entry…

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