Little and Large

The shadows are deep and dark and completely distorted

This is not without its curious effects:

Two of the tall, vertical shadows are gateposts, the third a human being, but which is which?

Between two of the verticals there is a thin guaged metal gate. Elsewhere the shadows represent very squat and curvaceous ballustrade.

But would you know which is which?

Its all a bit like the distorting mirrors in a fairground!

Here I am taking the photograph:

Like a Henry Moore sculpture with a tiny head. And, oh dear, I have an embarrassing stain between my legs!

Here:

yes, I like this one better!  I am immediately tall and leggy like one of those model guys that struts the catwalk.

But head still so small !

I never quite got Henry Moore and his small heads until now. And now at this strange, mystical time of the year I see the scale and get the largeness.

Googling Moore I find:

‘Some people have said why do I make the heads so unimportant. Actually, for me the head is the most important part of a piece of sculpture. It gives to the rest a scale, it gives to the rest a certain human poise, and meaning, and it’s because I think that the head is so important that often I reduce it in size to make the rest more monumental. The heads of Michelangelo’s figures will sometimes go twelve times instead of the usual six and a half, which is the average. It is a recognised thing.’

And there is this bestridingness now about the garden, or at least us in the garden.

Now is the time for making dramatic garden changes. For us to be bold, to be heroes!

Reprofiling borders, refurbing border contents, changing the direction of paths, moving plants, mulching, pruning, dividing herbaceous perennials…..

These are the sort of changes we are implementing in the large private gardens we oversee.

With fractional changes in day length buoying us up suddenly there is everything to play for!

R

Robert Webber

The Hegarty Webber Partnership