Description | Visitors on the access sculpture trail – Murray talking about this initiative. Names of sponsors on fencing. Trail creator Don Rankin talking about developing the project. Rankin VO shots of people with disabilities, explaining that the trail has to work for everyone, not just those who are disabled. Rankin pushing wheelchair user Patrick Nuttgens, Professor of Architecture at York University, talking about some new wooden path surfaces, looking at plants, drainpipe edgings, herbs, well with metal fish, log chess table. Rankin talking about the scale of objects and their relationship to the scale of the surrounding landscapes, and the ‘illusions’ these things can create. Rankin with Nuttgens, explaining some of these illusions, including a tree that died of Dutch elm disease but was found to have a remarkable root system which has been preserved as part of a sculpture. Nuttgens suggests that the Park is an enormous folly, full of ideas and invention, but incorporates all the features of an English landscape: it incorporates things to walk through, to touch, to smell, to hear, etc. It therefore works for everyone. Children. Rankin talking about the playful nature of the Park. |
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