I have spent the last few weekends carefully placing stones on top of each other.
If you place enough of them together, they form a wall.
When I got to six stones high the wall fell over.
I decided to build a variable height five stone tall wall.
To achieve variable height I used large stones for the left part of the wall and smaller stones for the right part of the wall.
The lower part of the wall is very useful for stepping over safely.
Variable angles were built into the design by using a wonky placement technique.
A friend of mine thought it was very unstable, uneven and crooked.
He obviously isn’t an artist.
My wall is a creative placement exercise.
My wall doesn’t and musn’t look like a bricklayer’s wall.
It’s more an artist’s wall.
It’s more a writer’s wall.
It’s more a politician’s wall.
It’s a Politically incorrect wall with structurally rebellious tendencies.
You mustn’t just look at it
You have to interpret it.
You have to critically review it
well, Very Large round Pebbles to you as well.
More from Deety and his informative column Words for the Wise can be read here
Several wall critics have been to see the wall..
“Beautifully laid, emotionally genuine with authentic structural immaturity.â€
“It may seem rough around the edges, maybe even a little reckless but it makes you want to sit on it.â€
“His broad-stroked and spontaneous laying style makes this piece so holey that a thousand Dutch fingers couldn’t turn it into a decent dyke†– Dutch Master Pieces.
“His work lives in a remarkable limbo between sculpture, bricklaying and rubble.â€
“It’s stone but yet delicately dangerous, rough yet intensely fragile, and positively untouchableâ€
“…an atmospheric and spiritual evocation of a real wailing wallâ€
“A Post-structuralism, Postwallism experience, luckily there were no injuriesâ€
Deety, I have recently been taking long walks around the property here, with my hands behind my back hiding my yellow thumbs — the banana red wine at Aristo’s–, and I have been looking at all the stone walls. These stone walls like your stone wall, are laid dry (as they say around here). I have to say whoever laid those walls, built them, was a patient artist. Patient because they are miles long, and time played a big part. An artist as they are beautiful, winding, straight, wonky, but not always easy to step over safely, beautiful.
Come and take a look!
Stoned.
What amazed me is that he actually had the walls to call them art!