
What is recorded here
This white commemorative plaque records: THE PANOPTIC LOOK ACROSS STRATA OF DEEP TIME. IMAGINE THE PAST OR FUTURE TOWN UNDER JARM WATERS. THINK OF YOUR BONES AS RUBBLE OR BUILDING MATERIAL. CONSIDER YOUR BODY TO BE ARCHITECTURE AS YOU MOVE THROUGH WESTON. FOLD AND FAULT. FOUNDATIONS THE VOID OF THE QUARRY IS LIKE BRAIN CORAL, AN EMPTINESS THINKING HANS PRICE, WHAT ARE YOUR BUILDING MATERIALS? THE GREAT ARCHITECT HOW MUCH OF WESTON'S ARCHITECTURE COULD BE PACKED BACK INTO THIS PLACE? LIST THE BUILDINGS UNTIL YOU IMAGINE IT SOLID ROCK AGAIN. THE AMATEUR BUILDER CREATE CIVIC SPACES AND EVENTS ABANDONED EDGELANDS, HYBRID STRUCTURES AND ACTIVITIES IN BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND MATURE. IN BETWEEN REINFORCED CONCRETE AND THE SKY. IN BETWEEN WESTON AND NOT WESTON, THE BOTANICAL RE-CONFIGURED LIKE PLANT CELLS, QUARRIED FRAGMENTS OF THE PLANET HAVE MADE OUR WESTON SKYLINE. TAKE A PEBBLE AND PLACE IT IN YOUR GARDEN. LIGHT A TOUCH OF LIGHT TO BLAST LIMESTONE. A FURNACE TO SHAPE IRON. WATCH FIRE CARVE ITS OWN STEPS, WALLS, QUARRIES. TIME THIS IS THE BEGINNING AND END OF A JOURNEY. STONES WERE CRUSHED HERE, FOR TARMAC: A PILOT CRASHED HIS PLANE INTO THE SMITHY. YOU MIGHT TAKE A WHILE TO MAP YOUR OWN JOURNEYS, PAST AND FUTURE. ANDS ALL AROUND YOU CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE IS BURIED UNDER TUFFS OF VOLCANIC ASH. WHAT WOULD YOU BUILD FOR A CATASTROPHE? www.WONDERS OF WESTON.ORG Recorded plaque organisation: Wonders of Weston.
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