{"id":11675,"date":"2024-09-11T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:07:21","slug":"ieuans-first-public-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/ieuans-first-public-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ieuan’s first public sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ieuan is our son, previously known as “tnp” here. He’s a versatile person currently doing work in the film industry, making jewellery (here<\/a> on Instagroan) and he has completed his first sculpture back in the summer. That was one of a small collection of commissions for the “Never Ending Glen” art trail which is part of the annual Kelburn music festival: https:\/\/www.kelburngardenparty.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the summer we, the nuclear family, assembled to join the opening walk up the Glen that reveals the sculptures. Sadly for me, I’d done something to pinch both a nerve and a nerve root (collective agreement of self, lovely A&E SHO in Glasgow and equally lovely osteopath in Dalry, near Kelburn!) That meant that even with two sticks I simply couldn’t get to the walk and had to give up about 200m from the car park. That did get me into a wonderful few hours in the double decker bus\/bar at the festival and the on the edge of the first music festival I’ve been to since about 1979. However, that’s a completely different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, with the osteopath’s exercises, the nerve mess has resolved and I’m walking pretty normally again and back last week, 6\/9\/24 to be precise, Ieuan took me back to Kelburn. We laughed at the memories of him rescuing me by steering me into the bus and could head up the trail. Here’s the stately home from the start of the walk. As with all the images here, clicking on them should get you the full sized images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can read more about the house here: https:\/\/www.kelburnestate.com\/<\/a> and here: https:\/\/www.exploringgb.co.uk\/blog\/kelburn-castle-scotland<\/a>. This zooms in a bit more on the graffiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But back to the sculpture. It’s a mobile suspended over the pool of the waterfall at the head of the glen walk and partly inspired by Alexander Calder’s mobiles. Ieuan and I share Calder amongst our superheroes. Here are a couple more of my images. You should be able to click on them to get full sized images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But being a mobile, ‘photos don’t really do it justice nor capture what for me is one of its glories: how it fits the setting so well. As you can see with the next few vimeo hosted videos, I am no cinematographer for all that my camera tries to allow me to get motion as well as stills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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