The Wooing Arch

Portland limestone, 2004
Nine stones; largest h.19cm, w.30cm, d.25 cm.

Stone arch which can be assembled as a bench perhaps, or dismantled for a more abstract display. The assembled arch which reads A stone on a stone makes a home – A word on a word tells a tale is taken from The Wooing of Becfola, translated by Standish Hayes O’Grady from the Silva Gadelica, 1892. The stones are numbered with characters devised by the artist and based on an ancient numbering system. This design became the template for the larger Lovers’ Arch made for Glasgow Caledonian University in 2006.