Field Visit
Date 20 December 2000
Event ID 612608
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/612608
Double-sided frosted/etched glass screen of 3 panels within a steel bannister at the edge of the mezzanine above the stair. Large clear letters on the stair side, and a selection of landscape references in phrases from poems in the collection, form a horizontal overall pattern in small etched letters on the mezzanine side.
The artist, Elizabeth Ogilvie, describes it as 'an attempt to extract an essence of Scotland, its land and people.'
See EDIN0306
Inscriptions : In glass on stair side::
THIS HOUSE, THIS POEM.. THIS FRESH HYPOTHESIS (Quotation from Iain Chricton Smith's 'Sonnet' from 'The White Noon' collection)
In glass on the mezzanine side (small etched upper case letters): [a selection of texts in Scots, English and Gaelic, beginning with Thomas the Rhymer and ending with George Gunn]
Signatures : None
Year of unveiling : 1999
Unveiling details : Building opened in June 1999
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0307)