Within the 60 acres of traditionally managed woodland at Heligan, Cornwall, UK, there are many intriguing sights to be seen: The Giant’s Head, Mud Maid and Grey Lady, wait to be discovered along Woodland Walk. This sheltered path comes to life as these woodland sculptures reveal themselves, emerging silently from the beautiful natural landscape.
Another reason schedule a trip to Cornwall...someday!! The snow version is so serene.
~ a musical sculpture in Crown Point, Burnley, UK ~
The 10 feet tall sculpture is wind-powered and consists of swirling pipes, which resemble a shape of a bent tree. The constant wind blowing through the pipes, creates the eerie sound.
The Singing Ringing Tree was constructed using galvanized steel pipes, because of their aesthetic qualities and for tuning. The sound produced varies according to not only the length, but also the added underside narrow slits/holes of specific pipes. Since the pipes are bent to the winds, it produces a low tone song, that sounds melancholic to visitors.
The twisted metal tree was designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, as part of a project meant for sculpturing or fashioning various landmarks across the countryside of East Lancashire.
It is a fascinating idea I think that you can marry sculpture and sound/music.
Interestingly the sound the tree makes is just what I expected but I wonder what it's like to be wandering the countryside and hear it from afar.
The sculpture itself makes me think of a cyclone or a hurricane - indeed I think if I was far enough away that's what I would think it was.
I wonder if people like it or not. Windchimes can be really lovely but sometimes they can intrude too - the wind alone is in control once you have put something of that kind in place.
I'd love to see/hear it though - at different distances to discover the differences.
I had an odd response to this. It quite freaked me out. I assumed the sound it made also and fear I would hear instructions in the cacophony and have to follow them! I think it would be eerie but fascinating! What an inspired undertaking.
I’ve just come across Berit Hildre’s beautiful sculptures of children. Berit was born in Norway, 1964, and lives in France now.
” Little girls believe in angels, fairies, princes and magicians .... Little girls collect all sorts of things: strange pebbles, angels' feathers, hazelnuts dropped from a tree, small boxes Empty spaces and secrets in the palm of the hand.” ~ Bérit
They are just so lovely Dee - what a great find!
I love the little girl with the cherries in her lap and the rather grumpy looking one in the video and below.
Such a powerful idea to introduce the adult hand, but only the hand - so you are not distracted by the form or character of another person - just invited to feel that contact between the two. Wonderful!!
As you say the body language is so acutely observed - so minutely perceived in the angle of a pose, the position of hands, feet, or the turn of the head.
