Artist(s): Ned Jackson Smyth
Location: The friary grounds, Ballyhaunis
Title: The Table
Medium: Sculpture
Date: 2006
Materials: A highly polished stone slab sits upon a grassed mound of earth with thirteen unpolished curved forms carved into it. The central dish has a bronze dish inserted into it.
Dimensions: 3000x1200x200mm
Description: This work invites many different levels of engagement, a direct reference to the Christian nature of the site and also reference to the Zen philosophy within the landscape. The aim was to provide a reflective of the environment in which its stands. The unpolished dishes represent the unfinished or incomplete which gather with rain. Nature plays its part as the seasons change and leaves fall and create their own unique patterns upon the stone and the vessels fill with rain. Water will freeze on the surface creating natures own patterns and at other times, it will lie dry and empty.
