Location
On the slopes of Bennachie, near Monymusk
Monymusk, Inverurie
OS Map Reference
NJ 693 217
Description
A sculpture composed of three carved wooden elements (spruce wood). Set under large conifers Making a visual pun between the letter keys of a qwerty keyboard and the seed cones of conifers. It comments on the commercial use of the trees to produce wood pulp for paper and the subsequent use of that paper.
Related Information
One of several contemporary sculptures on the slopes of Bennachie.
Bennachie is a small mountain, its most prominent peak "the Mither Tap" has an Iron Age fort on its summit. It has been suggested as a possible location of the battle of Mons Graupius (a battle between the Romans and the Caledonians, described by Tacitus) without there being any tangible evidence for this although archaeological finds do show it to have been an important site at least from the neolithic period onward.
Era
2000s
Related Artefacts
- Bennachie Story Wall Hanging
- Bennachie, Totem Pole
- Dr Danny Gordon's cairn and a memorial bench
- Old Road, Bennachie Centre
- THE CALLING OF THE CUCKOO IS THE OTHER SIDE OF SPRING
- The Felling of the Timber, is the making of the home
- The folding of the land
- the Gouk Stone, Bennachie
Categories
Iconography
- plant
- qwerty keyboard
Creator
- Chris Bailey, Sculptor
Photographer
- Michael Watt
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