Walter Bailey
Foraged Field Temple
— Foraged wood, including old railway sleepers, Chestnut Coppice, Birch, Sussex Redwood - 2022

‘Foraged Field Temple’,Coppice Chestnut Frame 2022

For humans ‘Foraged Field Temple’ is a place to contemplate landscape, slow down, take a breath and just listen for days, weeks and years. Capture landscape in a glass of whisky, lie down and watch the dawn spark dew drenched cobwebs into life. A place to hide and take your ease. This is a sculptural form created with local natural materials richly welcoming to interspecies habitation, I’m fully satisfied that given time and tranquility many and diverse beings will make a home in this structure.

A rough temple made in recognition and celebration of the blending and mutating life of planet Earth, a small gesture towards a practice of gratitude and a place to watch and to listen in tenderness.
— Walter Bailey
 
 
 
Trauma Stack
— Sussex Redwood-Sycamore- 2021
The “night sea journey’ is the journey into the parts of ourselves that are split off, disavowed, unknown, unwanted, cast out, and exiled to the various subterranean worlds of consciousness….The goal of this journey is to reunite us with ourselves. Such a homecoming can be surprisingly painful, even brutal. In order to undertake it, we must first agree to exile nothing.
— -Stephen Cope
 
 
 
 
Today Celestial Beings Struck My Garden
— Yew & Sussex Redwood - 2018 -
 
 
 
 
Cloud Caught in a Thicket
— Oak -Sussex Redwood - 2011