Cocktail Time, Circular Garden, Walt Rickli Interactive Sculpture Garden, 6214 Lowville Park Road, Lowville, Burlington, ON
Excerpt from the plaque:
“Cocktail Time”: Throughout history our ancestors have carved “hold stones”. Many of these, particularly those in Cornwall, UK, are known as Men-an-Tol. Of course, they are associated with many folklores. One of the local legends claims that if a at a full moon a woman passes through the holed stone seven times backward, she will soon become pregnant.
For me the wonder is to pass through a stone, to see what is within it and to touch the passage of time. As the sun passes on its daily route, I started to draw the shape of the circle’s shadow in the stone dust around 5:00. I could see each day that the shadow would move slightly in a direction indicating that the days were getting longer or shorter. I also know when it was Cocktail Time.
This is the most photographed sculpture in the garden. It makes me believe that we are all connected at our core by the same primal feelings.
Carved from Muskoka Granite, blasted from the Canadian Shield near Bala, Ontario.
Cocktail Time, Circular Garden, Walt Rickli Interactive Sculpture Garden, 6214 Lowville Park Road, Lowville, Burlington, ON
Excerpt from the plaque:
“Cocktail Time”: Throughout history our ancestors have carved “hold stones”. Many of these, particularly those in Cornwall, UK, are known as Men-an-Tol. Of course, they are associated with many folklores. One of the local legends claims that if a at a full moon a woman passes through the holed stone seven times backward, she will soon become pregnant.
For me the wonder is to pass through a stone, to see what is within it and to touch the passage of time. As the sun passes on its daily route, I started to draw the shape of the circle’s shadow in the stone dust around 5:00. I could see each day that the shadow would move slightly in a direction indicating that the days were getting longer or shorter. I also know when it was Cocktail Time.
This is the most photographed sculpture in the garden. It makes me believe that we are all connected at our core by the same primal feelings.
Carved from Muskoka Granite, blasted from the Canadian Shield near Bala, Ontario.