Blakkhaart Sculptures.

Three items for starters..

Flames of Industry

Of the sculptures, the main one was this, 'Flames of Industry' which carried the following explanation.

".......... this represents the industrial underpinnings of modern society. Entitled `Flames of Industry', the steel shards are joined and formed into a fire like structure. Each flame is representative of a single aspect or sector of modern industry, the way they spread and join underlines the importance of each supporting the other and the inter-reliance that is all around us.
The individual nails are indicative of the pillars of wisdom from each science, they appear to stand alone but are actually right at the center of all engineering and endeavor. Like nails joining wood, it is after all, the science holds the engineering together.
At the rear of the piece is a bridge formed by a bar over two diamond shapes, this is taken as a reflection of our ability to bridge all challenges crossing our path. Like industry and engineering, it is in the background, generally unnoticed but quietly forming an essential part of the whole.
The piece was created entirely from waste steel taken from a Coventry workshop that specialises in race car engineering and in itself forms part of the `Flames of Industry' in the UK."

Dying Swan

I was inspired by pictures of sea birds caught in an oil slick and felt there was a greater parallel with the overall path of modern life. Although as individuals in the western world we are dependent on technology it is that same technology that when ruthlessly exploited by the capitalist system that leads to the seemingly constant onslaught of disasters and adversity that cripples both society and indeed the individual. I tried to encapsulate this struggle in this piece where a swan like form, crippled and mutated, is seen hobbling on a crutch, the form is itself a technological structure but the greenery of nature still struggles to cling on.

	Space daisy

Pictures from the moon have a degree of contrast that really inspired me, the remnants of the Apollo craft and other missions have been left up there like old cars in a field, I had this picture of some ridiculous artificial vegetation growing around them.

©R.Hosier 2004