Princess of Wales Hospital    Bridgend   Wales

recumbent figure/ curved glass screen & glass wall relief by David Pearl

courtyard: David Pearl / Ian Gray & Associates landscape architects

                                                                curved glass silk screen enamelled screen     7 metres long x 2.1 metres height

                                                                                                   To enter a hospital , more than any other public building, is to feel yourself in the presence of a question mark. Questions, especially questions without obvious answers, might be thought to be unsettling, but it is possible that a certain kind of questioning might propose affirmation and wonderment . If not indeed, amusement

                                                                                                    Wall mounted 19 mm glass planks, sandblasted with a text in English and Welsh by Nigel Jenkins. The hospital's visitors and patients walking the corridor encounter a series of statements and questions projected as shadows onto the wall, celebrating the mysteries and wonders of the body.

        Beth yw'r mater...heblaw mater

                                            And if our blood remembers the sea

                                                                                   Do you listen in your blood to the song of our sphere

           Is it lonely down there at the big toe....

vessel and witness of the vastitudes  

                                                                                                          I crumble to a fine invisible dust

                                                                                                                                        poetry Nigel Jenkins

all images copyright David Pearl

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