A lovely essay posted on the Landscape and Art Network site recently. Worth a read. Martin Spray’s The tiger, before it leaps.
“TO THE TIGER, you are but meat. To you, if you see it before it springs, the tiger is a beautiful thing, and a terrible one. Do we not live with tigers, whose beauty, when we see it, blinds us to the fact that they are tigers, and may be – indeed are – about to spring? Some who see them say there are more than there used to be. I am inclined to agree.
A few years ago, at the end of October, here in the Forest of Dean, I was in a party that had gathered to celebrate some new works on the Sculpture Trail. Before visiting the sculptures, we had the usual little speeches, and a varied and tasty buffet lunch – al fresco but for a canopy of plastic, in case.”