Bennachie typewriter sculpture

Bennachie typewriter sculpture

Location

On the slopes of Bennachie, near Monymusk
Monymusk, Inverurie

OS Map Reference

NJ 693 217

Description

A sculpture composed of three carved wooden elements (spruce wood). Set under large conifers Making a visual pun between the letter keys of a qwerty keyboard and the seed cones of conifers. It comments on the commercial use of the trees to produce wood pulp for paper and the subsequent use of that paper.

Related Information

One of several contemporary sculptures on the slopes of Bennachie.

Bennachie is a small mountain, its most prominent peak "the Mither Tap" has an Iron Age fort on its summit. It has been suggested as a possible location of the battle of Mons Graupius (a battle between the Romans and the Caledonians, described by Tacitus) without there being any tangible evidence for this although archaeological finds do show it to have been an important site at least from the neolithic period onward.

Era

2000s

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Categories

Iconography

  • plant
  • qwerty keyboard

Creator

  • Chris Bailey, Sculptor

Photographer

  • Michael Watt

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