Turnstone (1998)

Turnstone

Client: Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council

Location: Housing Scheme for the Elderly, Alma Place, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.

Materials: Large beach stone, bearings, granite.

Brief: Open

Description:

A sea worn stone which is rotateable by being mounted on bearings on a wall cap stone.
A sandblasted poem by the artist reads: ‘A stone dropped in the ocean makes a hole in it, the hole closes in, the stone goes down, the ripples go out, the bubbles go up, the sea goes on, resting on the bed, another 300,000,000 years go by.