Keith CoventryBurgess Park SE5, Planted 1983, Destroyed 1988 1994

This bronze sculpture is a cast of a pair of slender upright columns of approximately human height – one straight and supportive, the other narrower, lithe and slightly bowed – braced together at two points along their lengths. Accompanied by a small commemorative plaque bearing the work’s title, the columns stand atop a low, rectangular pedestal resting on the floor. The source of the sculpture is a sapling and stake originally found in Burgess Park, an urban green space planted in the 1980s between several council estate blocks in south-east London… (read more)