Wheatham Hill - Byway 745 Observatory

A three dimensional piece of work intended to help contextualise the various strands of my research. A free-standing representation of the hill on which Byway 745 is located. Taking the contours from the OS map and scaling them up, locating the Byway with a notch in each layer, the work was made by cutting scrap materials to build up the layers. The contours from an elevation of 110 to 250 metres above sea level are represented and various combinations of scrap materials were experimented with before the final iteration was glued together. The choice of materials is informed by their availability as off-cut scrap and discarded packaging, but also as various forms of processed wood. This is a wooded hill. The resulting piece can be treated as a maquette for a larger scale realisation or as a plinth based small sculpture.