Jacks

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My interest in Jacks started when I saw a woodcut by Hans Glaser showing a strange manifestation of objects raining down on Nuremburg on April 4th 1561. The shape, in  plan also reminded me of archers windows in castles. The idea took on cosmic proportions when I imagined them being thrown by latter day thunder gods and the idea was considered as a sculpture for the embankment near the London Eye. In the end I  was equally happy to make Jackstar for Tipner Lake, Portsmouth.

The original Big Jack now lives at the Broom hill Sculpture gardens in North Devon.
Essentially it is about fun and play and the changes in scale experienced as a child. Lurking in the wings is the idea found in a book by Alan Watts: 'Play the super-game microbe.

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