Stone Memory by Charles Gurrey

Lincoln Silverbed limestone

The text is the last line of ‘The Creation’, a poem by Pablo Neruda: ‘But stone preserved the memory’.

“The material is an effective carving stone: pale and with evident fossil traces. Setting the lettering on its side and carving it in relief maximises the definition given to the principal strokes by incident light. It also helps to make the piece more abstract, enhancing the sense of it as a concrete textwork.”