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Return of the Rivers / Spell against Sorrow

Paul Highnam

Dimensions
6 seats (360cm x 90cm x 90cm) each

Courtesy of
Wessex Water Services Ltd

Two sets of three modular seats of solid limestone blocks for courtyard gardens, featuring lines of poetry from 'The Return of the Rivers' by Richard Brautigan and 'Spell against Sorrow' by Kathleen Raine. The text is carved into the stone seats, and refers to the nature of water.

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