A Wordless Song

Chalk, glass beads, acrylic, lead, cloth, bluestone, audio (site sound recordings), framed book Site: NZ Sculpture on the Shore 2014, gun emplacement structure A wordless Song draws from Siegfried Sassoon's poem, Everyone sang, to create a contemplative space within the gun emplacement structure. Early morning recordings of sounds heard inside the concrete structure play back into the space. The spoken words of the poem, transcribed into tangible acrylic ciphers and threaded onto strands of glass beads, hang from ceiling to floor and are held in place with lead weights. The phrase - the singing will never be done – is used as a refrain and coupled with each line of the poem on every strand. The written words of the poem are translated into Morse code and inscribed in chalk around the walls.