Title:
‘In the Rays of the Sun’
Location:
Stanley, Co
Durham, 2005
Materials:
Cream and orange sandstone
Description:
A pair of marker stones designed for the approaches to the ex-mining
town of Stanley uses the often repeated symbolism of
the pithead wheel in a fresh way. The spokes of such a wheel were
carved into the faces of two large blocks of orange-brown sandstone
which act as backdrops to two more detailed carvings in a paler
stone, each with a circular element placed at the centre of the
‘wheel’ so that the spokes may be viewed as the rays of the sun. The
smaller slabs carry the town’s name and symbols of regeneration,
leisure and wildlife.
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