This is a 1/4 scale maquette which I'll be carving full size in the Lake District this summer. Well, I'll be starting it this summer anyway. The stone is andesite; softer than granite but not by much so it'll probly take a few visits.

The site is a huge outcrop of rock at the top of a hill in a forest, near the cottage I'll be staying at but off the public paths. I'll show photos of the finished carving but I'm not going to advertise its location. The idea is to communicate across generations, maybe over hundreds or even thousands of years depending how the climate of the country changes. It's clear that wind and rain have had little effect on the riven surfaces of exposed stone since the end of the last ice age, but at the bottom of the valley they've been scraped smooth by glaciers.
My hope is that someone out walking in the next millennium might stumble across an ancient sculpture by some unknown carver. Maybe even be touched by the vast gulf of time between us.