Sighting lines on the top rock, with the sphere of surfboard wax (see below)
So... despite the unsuitability of the top rock for sunrise viewing on the summer solstice, I was reluctant to let it go. A family member cleaned a surfboard and made a sphere of wax. Spheres are attractive, and it linked with another bushland art project nearby*. I decided to place it on the summit of this abandoned site and see if hot weather would melt or distort it.
An absence of a few days over Christmas, then I visited again.
The wax sphere was gone. No sign of melting, not a trace. And the weather had been hot enough to melt the fat in the dog's bones and stain the stone of our house terrace.
Perhaps it was stolen by crows...*
But in the process of waiting for ideas to come, it occurred to me that this site may be useful on the winter solstice.
Time is one of the overarching themes of the bushland/ studio artworks, so I am willing to wait to see what happens with that one. In the meantime, I hurried down from the rock outcrop, disturbing a snake. Risk or danger is another theme that has occurred to me, but I thought risk to artworks, not to me or wildlife.
* Crows are interested in round, whitish objects because they hope that they are eggs. That is a different project.
16th January 2020: I conducted a further, more detailed search around the base of the large rocky outcrop, in case the wax sphere had simply rolled off. Could not find it.
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