Stone flows to water...

‘Stone flows to water...’, was created during November 2013 in the old quarry site at the Godrevy National Trust property. The piece was a sculptural site specific drawing, simply echoing the natural process of stone and soil transportation by water to the seas. Built using natural materials from the site... The drawing describes in stone, sand & soil the life of a river. From its beginning as a fast flowing, ‘young’, mountain stream with waterfalls. Evolving, as the topography of the land slows the water, into being a middle aged river with a meandering pattern across flood plains. To finally become an ‘old’ river and alluvial estuary, merging into the sea... Within the older river, swirls and whirlpools were drawn in stone, several of these were covered in Red River clay, which over the winter months were dried by the sun and washed by the rain.. In November, little did I know about the forth coming storms, rain and tides that would batter Cornwall and the UK in 2014. Vividly demonstrating what a powerful force nature is, with its ever changing cycles and patterns, never sitting still, always creating change...