Tag: sculpture

  • The Kelpies

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    My parents have been visiting, and I thought they might like to see The Kelpies. A few years ago we rather enjoyed visiting Jaume Plensa’s Dream, a meditative and beautiful public sculpture commemorating Lancashire’s mining past. Like Plensa’s Dream, The Kelpies celebrate industrial heritage, but are things of water rather than of light. Kelpies are…

  • Good Walk

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    Hiya! Remember me? My name is Bruce. Today I am telling you about a Good Walk. This Walk begins at the place called Blackford Hill. This place has lots of grass. If you are lucky, the humans will stop to admire the thing that they call View . . . . . . while you…

  • leafy

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    More graffiti, of a kind. If you are often out walking around the North side of Edinburgh as I am, then you may well have spotted the mysterious leaf-folk who have recently appeared near Belford bridge. One turned up a few weeks ago, and there are now five human figures plus a leafy dog. Their…

  • ex terra lucem

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    I returned to Lancashire for the weekend, and went for a walk with my mum and dad. We parked the car near the colliery gates. . . . . .and we made our way over the landscape which covers the site of the mine. The trees thinned and the ground rose up before us. Then…