1981 Screenprint and colour aquatint, with etching, on white wove BFK Rives paper
391 x 253 mm. Purchase: The artist 1982
Number 7 of an edition of 35. Printed by the artist at the Visual Art Department, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth. Part of the third edition of a set of four prints created in response to the poetry of the Rev. Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant (1913-1997), a poet, sculptor, academic and Anglican vicar at Llanddewibrefi between 1974 and 1978. All four images join together to form one landscape. The standing stones are based on a sculpture by Moelwyn Merchant
Dyfed landscape and a poem. An etching of two standing stones in a barren hilly landscape with a row of distant trees and three clouds? Dust-ground aquatint with etched lines and some burnished highlights. Printed in black and blue-grey, blue-grey for clouds. Below is the following five verse poem by Moelwyn Merchant; IT DOESN'T PULSE WITH BLOOD,/LEAVES NO LOOP OR WHORL OF PRINT,/THE SOFT IMPRESS OF FLESH; IT HAS NO RESILIENCE LIKE STEEL/NOR TENSE PLANGENCY OF WIRE,/NOR HUMILIATION OF RUST. IT BLOOMS WITH NO FLOWER/NOR LEAF WITH SAP RISING;/IT STRIKES NO ROOT IN EARTH. BUT IT WEATHERS TO A TEXTURE/LIKE FLESH VEINED AND SCARRED;/IT FRACTURES TO CRYSTAL AND FOUND OR CARVED,/WEATHERED OR TOOLED WITH CARE,/ STONE IS A STILL POINT,/A MOMENT OF AWE