These fragments are the enigmatic partial remains of something large, something unknown and undiscoverable created in time past.

An unknown object/creature has been broken by the force of the sea into many pieces and the fragments scattered to the four winds. Six of these fragments have been found, eroded and broken by the force of the waves, chaotically tossed and washed-up on the beach – a metaphor for the artefacts, debris, plant and animal remains; the unique flotsam and jetsam found on the beaches along our coast.

The title is from T S Eliot's 'The Dry Salvages': "Where is there an end to the drifting wreckage, the prayer of the bone on the beach, the unprayable Prayer at the calamitous annunciation ?"

PrayerTwo

Stainless Steel, paint, Corten weathered steel
2016 (67 h x 84 x 50cm, plinth 88 x 65 x 30cm)

PrayerThree

Stainless Steel, paint, Corten weathered steel
2016 (81 h x 62 x 50cm, plinth 61 x 66 x 35cm)

PrayerFour

Stainless Steel, paint, Corten weathered steel
2016 (85 h x 52 x 68cm, plinth 70 x 61 x 30cm)

PrayerFive

Stainless Steel, paint, Corten weathered steel
2016 (68 h x 62 x 100cm, plinth 80 x 50 x 42cm)

PrayerSix

Stainless Steel, paint, Corten weathered steel
2016 (62 h x 97 x 62cm, plinth 76 x 90 x 25cm)