Text-ure
St Magnus, the forgotten cathedral, the cathedral built by public subscription – is lined with text.
The precise economy of words that sums up life -a blessed resurrection, mother, sister, child. Here death is woven in context.
The letters are not inscribed, the method of cutting letters out of the stone leaving a shadow, a trace, easily worn.
These letters stand in relief, a pattern of forms, integral with the stone, made visible by cutting away the space that separates one from the next.
Strong, faith-full in their life and their desire, no shadows here, but the patterns of life and death entwined- resonating across these islands
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