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Art Installations

Field Marker

A weathering steel and glacial boulder installation marking a boundary that no longer exists.

Field Marker
Scope
Creative installation
Material
Weathering steel, glacial erratic
Height
3.2 metres

The story

Caithness · 2024

The march dyke had been robbed for road stone two centuries ago. The line remained in the map, in the grass and in the names.

The piece is a threshold you can walk through — steel that will go on rusting to a stop, set against a stone that arrived under ice.

It is not sculpture placed in a landscape. It is the landscape given a place to be noticed.

  • Field Marker — view 1
  • Field Marker — view 2
  • Field Marker — view 3

Design process

How the work was made.

  1. 01

    Research

    Estate archive and map regression to fix the historic boundary line.

  2. 02

    Making

    Fabricated in Caithness, weathered on site for a season before final setting.

  3. 03

    Siting

    Positioned by eye over four visits, at different hours and weathers.

  4. 04

    Ground

    Grassland restored around the base with local seed.

Outcome

A quiet, permanent piece of orientation — geographic and otherwise.