A while ago I went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see a major exhibition of work by David Nash.  What I didn’t know at the time was that I had already made some photographs of Nash’s work for the National Forest – called Noon Columns as they are orientated towards the sun at True Noon.   This has started me thinking about the measurement of time and how the sun was probably the first method by which humans measured time.  Indeed this is still the cornerstone of time measurement  as large amounts of time is delineated in multiples of years and a year is an arbitrary measure of time set by the length of time our planet takes to orbit the sun.   Whilst this is convenient for human understanding of time it really doesn’t have any relationship to time in the way that gravity does.

This then started me to think about the oldest tools for measuring the passage of the sun, stone circles and henges, and could these be warped into the Deep Time project as they usually combine stone, not exclusively as there are many  henges that use wood but they now only remain as stains in the grounds – the wood rooting away many years ago, and their use for measurement of the heavens – the biggest well of deep time.   Suddenly whole new avenues of exploration have started to appear.