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Untitled blog post from "Land art project"

  • Writer: Jonathan Moss
    Jonathan Moss
  • Dec 12, 2008
  • 1 min read

Day 12

Drizzle, damp, mud, numb toes..and it’s finished. A horse in the neighbouring field surveys me stoically as I make the finishing touches to the last and shallowest line of soil which I have pressed on top of the grass without digging up any of the roots. Stenciling the outline with a couple of roof tiles, this has been the most delicate and painstaking part of the process and also the most ephemeral.

My last long-term project, a public art installation at Lumen United Reformed Church in London, was constructed for me by art fabricators. It is a change therefore to be back making the work myself, directly responsible and in control of its visual outcome - the gruelling labour of a "real artist", as many (including my driving instructor) would believe!

Rona Smith

 
 
 

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