LINDA GORDON - THE SKERN

After making The Skern, I perched up on the cliff with my digital stills camera and made this simple video. Lasts approximately 22 minutes. A few minutes will give you a feel of it... or watch it all to be transported into a seashore reverie. Click the picture!

Content With Silence

The Skern was made for the Appledore Visual Arts Festival 2007, and I originally named it Safe Harbour. It remains today (2011), gradually changed over the years by weather and tides, people and animals. Now draped with vivid green seaweed, it makes a fine home for a multitude of small sea creatures.

Made from dark rocks, stones, and seaworn bricks found along the high tide line.
The work is about movement, change and the cyclical processes of nature. Shaped like a beginning spiral, the two ends are like sheltering 'open arms', allowing free passage in and out of the work.

Made from dark rocks, stones, and seaworn bricks found along the high tide line. The work is about movement, change and the cyclical processes of nature. Shaped like a beginning spiral, the two ends are like sheltering 'open arms', allowing free passage in and out of the work.

The work is about movement, change and the cyclical processes of nature. Shaped like a beginning spiral, the two ends are like sheltering 'open arms', allowing free passage in and out of the work.

Made from dark rocks, stones, and seaworn bricks found along the high tide line.
The work is about movement, change and the cyclical processes of nature. Shaped like a beginning spiral, the two ends are like sheltering 'open arms', allowing free passage in and out of the work.