5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
9. Juli 2014
Ort:
The Wirral, UK
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How the Grace Darling arrived on Hoylake’s shore is a simple story. Earlier in the year Barbara Singleton asked if we could make a driftwood boat for the Wirral Festival of Firsts. We could not obtain enough driftwood but we were given a fallen beech tree in Arrowe Park. Grace was completed in a little over three weeks and just in time for the festival. 600236 491470254266589 834130853 n "Maybe it is “art” and maybe it isn’t. Whatever it is, it is there to be experienced, to be lived with, to be jumped on, interacted with, altered, copied, rebuilt and, most of all, enjoyed!" But the building of Grace is another episode in what has become an ongoing journey of discovery for me, for Major, and the growing band of driftwood dreamers who give their time and skills to this magical project. We recycle materials to make things on the beach. We use whatever the Mersey delivers to make dolphins, sea-monsters, pirate ships, pirates, a stone Dragon, a Christmas Nativity, a memorial for those who died in the wars. We don’t always agree about what to make, about what materials should be used or about how things should look, but we do agree that we talk to all the people who want to talk and encourage all the people who want to be involved. That is the most important part of the project. And people are ready to be involved. Everyday there are events, often small – tiny jewels, often amusing, sometimes crazy, amazing, beautiful and unpredictable. They go by so quickly that we can’t hold on to them all, can’t even remember them all. From the first day of work on Grace received a warm and enthusiastic welcome from local residents. If only we could remember more names! We won’t forget the people. We won’t forget the barefoot little girls taking immediate possession of “the ship” – at that stage just a line of pallets. We won’t forget the ship’s wheel, made and fitted by a local resident in the first few days.
