The perils of public sundials.

[Tony Moss]

Linda Reid wrote:

> Do the members of this 'List' have any comments (good or bad), about
> installing such interactive sundials - since we do not want to go to
> the time and expense of creating this, if local people do not really
> want it.  Most people said they would be happy, (although we did not
> mention any of those negative factors, when conducting short "market
> research" - because we were totally unaware of them, at that time).
>
> I shall very much look forward to receiving feedback, on the above.
>   

Hi Linda,
                Over the years I have designed and made several 
analemmatic and other dials in
public places and, like any prominent feature, some have occasionally 
attracted the attentions
of the local grafitti artists but this has been the exception rather 
than the rule.  Any public dial
should be designed with this possibility in mind of course. "It will be 
thrown in the river within
a month" the doubters said of my stainless steel horizontal on the 
grassy banks but it is still there
twelve years later.

None of the three mosaic dials laid out technically by me for a local 
artist have suffered in any way
except for one where the client chose and prepared the final location, 
without consultation, in the shade
of the largest tree in the museum garden.  It works best in the autumn 
and winter.

Public sundials are natural gathering points for celebrations but 
usually for nothing more threatening
than seeing the New Year in or watching the equinox sunrise.

Tony Moss

Sometime Lindisfarne Sundials - no longer trading.


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