MICHAEL FAIRFAX PUBLIC ARTIST, SCULPTOR, DESIGNER |
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APPLE
DAY |
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The
Apple Day sculpture is sited at the Worle Magistrates Court in Somerset.
The site once had a rhyne running through it and at nearby Puxton a
strange ritual took place for dividing up the allotments. It seems that
apples were cut in half and a symbol was cut into the apple, you then
took your halved apple and threw it. Where it landed was the size of
your allotment. The local stone sculpture is aligned to the setting
sun on apple day (21st October) The paving is set to look like the allotments
and double as Rhynes, at each junction of the blue lias stone is set
a bronze roundel with a symbol carved into it representing the apple
halves. |
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Detail
of the bronze symbols in the paving scheme with their ancient names |
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