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I have been appointed as craftsperson in residence at Woodmill High School in Dunfermline, Fife. My apprentice Marc and I will be spending a month working there over this summer term 2007 on various lettercutting projects.
The school is building a new facility for those of its' pupils with additional support needs and absorbing another local special needs school, Headwell. This is the reason this project has been initiated by Fife Council and the emphasis of much of the work I will be doing there.
 This first week though I have been making the Freedom Stone for the school quad. I have got a huge one tonne quarry block of Scotch Buff sandstone with one flat sawn face from my local sawyard. The word freedom, like the concept, rests on the word responsibility. The letters are massive and literally hundreds of the pupils have been helping me rough them out, older and younger, girls and boys. We are working at the front entrance of the school and are mobbed at breaks and lunch time. Classes have been coming out during the school day and getting a bit more time with us. Marc has carved a pair of feet for the stone to rest on, and has been helping some of the kids do simple celtic knotwork patterns on small bits of flagstone.
It has been great fun and we have been really well received. Lots of people including the school teachers and admin staff have had a go and got their hands on the job and I think the finished item looks good and has something to say for itself.
Thanks a lot you guys..... it was a blast. |
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