Dry stane dyke, originally uploaded by bobsee.
This is what we call a “dry stane dyke” in Scotland. It’s an ancient art and it’s the making of walls with the stones as they are. They aren’t shaped or machined to fit and the art lies in fitting them together without using any cement or mortar to bind them together.
I love their organic uniqueness. They are glorious!
And I love how with time the lichens and the moss soften many of the hard edges and bring the greens and golds and the silvers to the shades of grey.
I love how they weather and how they fit so perfectly well into the fields.
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Reminds me of the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy, but the aged specimen is without real comparison. It’s a lovely subject and has such great texture. This wall is the true work of art.
Check out Goldsworthy’s video at http://lovekatie.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/157/
If nothing else, it’s unusual.
Thankyou Barbara
And thanks for the link. I’m a real fan of his work too. The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh had a few of his pieces scattered around a few years ago and I really enjoyed stumbling across them, exploring them
Interesting to read this.
I always thought a dyke was an open ditch but guess I was wrong as in the poem the little boy saved Holland by stopping the whole in the dyke floodng the land by putting his finger in the hole.
Rachel
Rachel, I know that story too. I think the Dutch and Scottish dykes aren’t quite the same but they’re both walls. It was the wall part of the flood defence that he put his finger in!