'Black Mound'

Here's another of the artworks that I enjoyed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP).  It is 'Black Mound' by David Nash, created in situ in 2013. It is made from coal and oak, charred black by carefully controlled burning.  The artist said of it:  'With wood sculpture one tends to see ‘wood’, a warm familiar material, before reading the form: wood first, form second. Charring radically changes this experience. The surface is transformed from a vegetable to a mineral – carbon – and one sees the form before the material.'

The more I looked, studied and photographed it, the more I appreciated it - the subtle black on black tones and textures, the relationship between the stumps and the spaces between and the way nature was encroaching and redefining the piece, slowly reclaiming it as her own. The bright yellow dandelion, a common weed, was showcased, becoming part of the sculpture, like a spark among the ashes. 

And just because I like playing, here's an abstract composition based on the image above: