Cheeseburn 3 - Marking the Glade

Site-responsive installation and drawing, 2024

This third phase at Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens marked a shift in aesthetic and approach, focusing on guiding attention through subtle intervention rather than material degradation or accumulation. Set within a large woodland glade, the work introduced painted pink logs and branches positioned along a walking route to highlight small moments within the landscape.

The markings acted as quiet prompts, encouraging visitors to slow down and notice details that might otherwise be overlooked — shifts in light, ground texture, vegetation, and sound. Rather than directing movement explicitly, the work gently shaped how the walk was experienced, returning to the recurring theme of noticing the unnoticed.

The route led visitors around the glade to a bench positioned as a point of pause. From here, a large-scale drawing could be viewed, based on a geological thin-section slide of a rock. The drawing translated microscopic geological structure into an immersive visual field, linking bodily movement through landscape with deep material time.

This work brought walking, marking, and drawing together as interconnected acts of attention, positioning landscape not as backdrop but as an active field through which perception is shaped.

This work forms the third phase of an ongoing series at Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens exploring duration, return, and attention through walking and drawing.