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We will remember
It is interesting how many of the pieces commemorate the landscape, as elegies for what we might lose. Andrew Baxter is a letter-carver who designs his own completely original script, in this case to carve a poem by Wendell Berry, ‘It is the Destruction of the World’, on a standing stone with an inlay of trees in contrasting limestone. ‘I will always start by drawing out an alphabet that I think suits the commission,’ he says, and contrasts his holistic approach, ‘where the lettering, the poem, and the stone as a whole are all equally important’ with those who apply or adapt an existing font to their needs. Baxter’s stone stands at the junction of arboretum and open parkland, the tamed and the wild, and its lines ‘To have lost wantonly the ancient forests, the vast grasslands, is our madness...’ haunt the air around it.
Art and Memory is well-named; it is a richly memorable exhibition, one that lingers long in the mind and the imagination, and its catalogue, with statements by all the artists, is invaluable.
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