Five of us made the journey to Formby on Sunday 9th October
to complete a task which was started on 8th May this year. On 8th May volunteers started to
create Viking rune letters using tree branches and string for an installation in
a play trail in the woods. This workday
is the completion of that task.
When we arrived at the Blundell Road Countryside Office we needed to
dismantle the letters that were stored there and transport them to the
worksite. We looked at the existing
letters and photographed the ones that we would re-use. Other letters would be made to size at the
worksite. The chopped branches were
transported to the worksite on the rangers land rover trailer and other letters
were cut to size at the worksite.
Once at the worksite we were given a picture of the letters which the
artist wanted making, the letters would spell the words “Love and Play”.
We assessed the area where the letters were
to be placed and decided to change the wording to “Love to Play” so that we
could fit all the words into the space we had.
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| Positioning letters in place, this is the word "Love" |
Each letter needed to have four rows of branches which were secured by string.
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| Letter "O" being created, here a stake is being hammered into the ground |
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| Cutting branches to size |
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| Completed letter "O" |
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| More letters being staked |
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| Making "stakes" for the letters |
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| Letter "P" |
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| Letter "L" |
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| Letter "A" |
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| Letter "Y" |
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| Letter "L" |
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| Letter "O" |
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| Letter "V" |
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| Letter "E" |
The finished installation of "Love to Play" is below:
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| LOVE |
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| TO |
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| PLAY |
It was a lovely day and we all felt very proud of the finished work.
Denise, Worksite Leader
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