Evening out at Portishead
On Friday evening ten members of Kingswood Photographic Society met at the Marina in Portishead. We wandered about as usual, and many of us were attracted to a series of "standing stones" I later found out (courtesy of Google!) that The "Standing Stones" are known as FULL FATHOM FIVE by the artist Michael Dan Archer. One of the largest sculptures recently installed in the UK, the Seafarer’s Sculpture, it consists of a forest of granite columns running across a large earthwork by the sea in the new Port Marine development in Portishead near Bristol. The 108 granite columns vary in height from 1m to 3m and are arranged in serpentine aisles which the spectator can walk through to the crest of the mound where a stone has been set to sit on and contemplate the sea. From land or sea, the view reveals that the columns form the profile of a wave.
