The Portland Memory Stones

Stone unearthed holds the memory of time. Once part of another landscape with evidence of life replaced at the molecular level – the geology underpins the fragile layer of ecology on which we all exist.

Twelve large ‘Memory Stones’ form a new arrival point to Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve and the Wider Portland Quarries Nature Park; a network of abandoned and disused quarries that are packed full of wildlife, heritage, and industrial archaeology – in a collaboration between Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust and Dorset Wildlife Trust.

The work is the idea of artist Hannah Sofaer – MA (RCA) to connect the stones to audio visual recordings that she has made of artists work, Portland’s Quarry environment, people and skills of working with stone; informing layers of memory overlaid on the landscape and its geology.

More: http://memorystones.org.uk/the-memory-stones/

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