Sentinels
.Sentinels: a pair of salvaged, ebonised spears, formed from charred telegraph poles embedded in substantial concrete plinths. The blackened wooden spires, found in a bonfire many years ago, were saved and stored, moved home with, before being regenerated into today’s, portal-like, pair of guardians. The power of the fire destroyed at the same time as preserving them and their charcoaled blackness emphasises their shape and form. Materially, the somewhat crooked and fossilised black timber, contrasts with the grey precision of the manmade bases; giving Sentinels both their powerful suggestion of hope and despair, and their fusion of past and future: of destruction and renewal.
