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Hawthorne Gap?
Sally Zaranko · 2 works in this exhibition
- MediumLino
- Image size21 x 29 cm
- Edition1 of 20
- Year2026
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About the artwork
Calls of meadow pipits and wrens the only sound on the wind.The small brown bird, the Meadow Pipit (amber-listed for their scarcity), is mainly unnoticed until it flicks away and sits on a wall top or fence post and looks back. When I got to Sycamore Gap a comparison occurred to me. The Roman wall is a legacy of invasion. The sycamore is a species native to central, eastern and southern Europe, possibly introduced by the Romans or later in Tudor times %u2013 another invader. The sycamore tree is now only a stump, all that remains of a once iconic tree that gave its name to this part of Hadrian%u2019s Wall %u2013 Sycamore Gap. Well, it%u2019s a gap now, for sure. However, to the rear of the wall and behind where the sycamore tree once grew, is a weather-sculpted hawthorn. A native tree that has recolonised and taken back its land. I smiled at the irony of the situation Maybe we should call it Hawthorn Gap?