Sunny day , perfect for The Hushings at Hurstwood Reservoir

This place has a physical pull: intrigue and a poignant mix of the natural and man-made/interference. It looked even more alien today – I walked right up to the top  from where you can see Burnley. It doesn’t photograph that well, the camera flattens out the landscape with all those hundreds of hills. They look like they’ve been flocked and make me want to run my hand over the top to feel the texture.

found an irresistable pile of stone and started to make something. After a sculptural attempt that looked way too much like an Andy Goldsworthy, I turned my thoughts more to architecture. So here is my fake ruin- fusing the pre-historic Stonehenge with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater- I say that firmly tongue in cheek. Having made this with the first, very small, pile of stones I came across-  I then realised, walking on, the hillsides were abundant with it. Huge cascades of lovely grey  stuff- I’m assuming its sandstone , the way it breaks horizontally. I need a geologist!

detail of “fake ruin”

stone stuff in abundance

I will return to make more – but I’m pleased to now have more images to choose for the setting for the camels. Maybe this one……