'Birch' dome after dark
Filmed during artists' closing party at Out of Nature, smoke blowing across from 'Bonfire' reveals the beams of light, emanating from 'Birch'. More photos can be seen at: https://www.facebook.com/Richard-Harris-Sculpture-1988021388083592/
In the past, when road transport was more difficult, logs would have been floated down rivers, including the Wye. 'Birch' is an attempt to make a 'shelter' from a long flexible 'string' of wood, that could be floated down the river, before being coiled up to form a structure on the riverbank. 'Birch' is made with the same (flexible) joint used in 'A River and a Tree': https://vimeo.com/222169606 and originally in 'Passing through No Man's Land' in Fukuoka, Japan: http://www.richardharrissculpture.co.uk/gallery
In the past, when road transport was more difficult, logs would have been floated down rivers, including the Wye. 'Birch' is an attempt to make a 'shelter' from a long flexible 'string' of wood, that could be floated down the river, before being coiled up to form a structure on the riverbank. 'Birch' is made with the same (flexible) joint used in 'A River and a Tree': https://vimeo.com/222169606 and originally in 'Passing through No Man's Land' in Fukuoka, Japan: http://www.richardharrissculpture.co.uk/gallery
