Artist : Jonathan Michael Ray
Title : Earthen Cairn
Medium : found bricks from London Thames foreshore
Dimensions : 200 x 60 x 60 cm


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This work is constructed from approximately 300 London stock bricks, which were handmade in the 19^th / early 20^th century. They were collected from the banks of the river Thames in South London, and having spent years in the water have been rounded like pebbles by the ebb and flow of the river tide. A cairn is a man-made pile of stones raised for a specific purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound, however this tower also happens to look like a factory chimney stack, and although Ray originally made this work before moving to Cornwall, it also reflects the now redundant old engine houses which proliferate the Cornish landscape as remnants of its mining past.