Its always difficult to decide when to publish on ongoing pieces of work. When there is an exhibition deadline to meet the timing is more obvious. But as many makers, especially those not running an art business with sale deadlines, the temptation is always to work iteratively with one final piece instead of making several pieces, one evolving form the next. But on this installation we have decided that the first version of the installation is complete and a second will be made later on in the year after further megalithic research this summer.
The installation is a hanging full Stonehenge made out of parian, an idea of Mike’s to explore stone circles structurally with ceramic, which revolves beautifully with the weight of the circle. Mike worked on the ceramic and structural elements. Sitting underneath is a hollow parian “Sarson Stone” arch. The video projections, a sixty minute combination of abstract imagery, is looped and continually projected from underneath created by Lance. Accompanying the installation is the soundtrack ‘Megalithic’, a 30 minute, six-sectioned work composed by Lance (part of which can be heard in the video), and which includes a narrated piece from a section of the longer Megalith story that we are writing and informs the basis of much of our tangental “spin out” art projects. In the winter months the installation could be viewed in Mike’s gallery, particularly resonant for the Winter Solstice celebration, but it may be a later version that becomes something that is exhibited publicly.