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FAMILY FUN FRIDAY - Boston Marketplace

Friday 11th April 2015

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Fabrication day 6: Roaring fire, blue enamel paint, boat base coats, a Light Ship (mini) insect hotel, plus a contour bird box included in todays sneak peak. 

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The foundation stone of my TRANSPORTED commission for Long Sutton and District Civic Society (LSDCS) has been a consultation process that has engaged with over 337 members of the local community to provide what Tim Machin, Chairman LSDCS, has dubbed as the 'the most comprehensive survey of the area completed for the society'. 

And so, I take great pleasure in announcing the result of the consultation process and the site-responsive approach moving forward into the New Year. The final theme for the 'Imaginarium of Common Understanding' (2015) is as follows:

THE WASH:

Long Sutton is an ‘Edgeland’ historically defined by its relationship to The Wash, the largest estuarine system in the UK:

‘The shoreline is sensitive to glacial intervention: during the Anglian glacial period for example (about 300,000 to 250,000 years ago) the entire area was overwhelmed by a vast ice-sheet hundreds of metres in depth. Presently the rate of sea-level rise is expected to increase substantially due to global climate change & the Government has asked flood defence authorities to plan for an average sea-level rise of 6 mm per year to 2030.’ (The Wash - Natural England Profile)

The intervention intends to concentrate upon the cartography, geography and history of Long Sutton Common Pit alongside it's surrounding ecosystem. 

The almalgamated and redesigned interpretation sign (see existing signs above) will utilise cartographic references that show The Wash, it’s sand banks, historical light ship location and tributaries alongside information related to the Last Wash Guide: Charles Wigglesworth, buried in Long Sutton Church cemetery.

Within the pit itself a series sculptural interventions will echo maritime signs and symbols from a full-size, yet halved, boat hull manifesting as an insect hotel to bird boxes and platforms. The insect hotel design in particular places Long Sutton at the apex of a boat with the Wash spreading out below. The insect ‘habitats’ are designed to improve the existing ecology of the site and will be formed out of a series of boxed sections and materials that form the area coloured blue within the first diagram above.

Smaller sculptural interventions will reference the estuarine tide both symbolically and via text, including referencing the ‘Roaring Middle’ and other historical notations. The installation will underline the dynamic nature of ecological and environmental change whilst connecting the viewer to the water they stand beside both literally and historically.

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Final Consultation: 'The Imaginarium of Common Understanding' (2015) - Long Sutton, South Holland, Lincolnshire. 

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....more poetry, this time from George Bremer

The common Pit 

  Now tell me the reason  why folks did declare 

in un glamorous words the name of my lair 

I heard of much similar locale 

(or so i've been told)   

with names like, pool, pond  mere 

Or fairy abode 

My waters are pristine the ducks do abound 

Tress grow most healthily their roots  

snug in my ground 

But 

The good folk of Long Sutton  

I think played a cruel trick 

Oh yes for they named me 

That common (old) pit

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...three different colour palettes for three different 'Imaginarium of Common Understanding' (2015) themes after a 12 week consultation process. All will be revealed tomorrow at Long Sutton Christmas Market. Why not come and see what options are available for Long Sutton Common Pit, Lincolnshire? 

You'll find us here all day: Long Sutton British Legion Club, West Street, PE12 9BN

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/what-s-on/lifestyle-and-leisure/long-sutton-christmas-market-and-food-fair-1-6462292

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The Common Pit was once a quarry but thanks to the efforts of Long Sutton Civic Society several years ago it is now a vibrant nature reserve.... Residents claim that many years ago elephants once bathed in the pit while visiting the town as part of a travelling circus.'

From Spalding Guardian's archive Coun Dennis Tennant

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Open Consultation Short Questionnaire - we need your help!

- HAVE YOU VISITED LONG SUTTON COMMON PIT (THE DUCK POND) BEFORE?

- WHAT WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO VISIT IN THE FUTURE?

- WHAT THREE WORDS DESCRIBE LONG SUTTON, SOUTH HOLLAND, TO YOU?

.... respond by emailing: [email protected] 

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