Lotte Glob, Ceramic Artist

The idea of extending beyond my own garden into the great wilderness at my back door seemed inevitable. Gradually something developed becoming almost a ritual - perhaps as a token of thanks to nature so that further mountains became home to more and more of my sculptures until now over 50 of my sculptures are sitting in a wilderness of over 5000 square kilometers on top of mountains, hidden valleys and so forth and a feeling that each one linked to another by invisible lines across the landscape, as do the sculptures standing in my other peoples gardens. The clay I use is essentially rock, granite, worn by time and weather, carried by rain and stream and eventually to become sedimentary clay - reformed and burnt once again - a kind of rock or stoneware sculptures, so returning it in its new form to its old primeval earth mother does not seem too strange. Walking through this vast wilderness for days - often sleeping on top of mountains - to find a place for a sculpture, is an experience full of endless sources of inspiration and inevitably led to new ideas in my work - a circle of give and take. Usually I select a safe, unobtrusive place where it will not be blown down the mountain side or get kicked over by a passing deer. It is then photographed in it's surroundings and with a view to other places of sculptures which can often be eight or ten in number. the particular day and time as well as the weather is recorded as is any significant features of the journey. Only then do I finally place it in its niche where it is left to its own future.