A Nuclear Monument: Honouring a Relationship with New Technology

Materials: Faded, stiffened neon yellow rope; seaweed, wet and dry in response to the tide; steel fabricated by workers in the shipyard.

Site: The sculpture is positioned on the shore, and part-immersed by the sea according to the tide.

Description: Barrow is fertile ground for the seeding of new ideas. A delicate ecology, deprived of labour, greets the dawn of a new era in technology with a pre-skilled workforse.The beating heart of the town - The Shipyard - is supplied with fresh fuel, to sustain its central position in the history of innovation. A new sculpture conveys an intricate relationship with nuclear tachnology; a relationship made possible by the sea. The sea ebbs away to reveal a shock of steel, a bundle of faded neon, a knot of seaweed; as intractable as the relationship between the new and the natural in Barrow. The tide moves in to once again conceal the tacit understanding that allows an ultramodern industry to quietly thrive.