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As
a sculptor, having spent half a lifetime engaged in making
public art, Jeff Salter is constantly mindful
of being surrounded by the heritage of countless nations,
civilisations and tribes leaving their indelible architectural
marks upon the landscape, mostly as archaeological vestiges
of truimphalism, sanctuary or mortality.
Cromlechs,
stone circles, fortifications, palaces, temples, pavilions,
holy wells and springs, chapels, mortuaries of long forgotten
cults, religions and clans in remote and isolated locations,
from which the progeny have moved on leaving an intriguing,
if insubstantial solitary mark upon the terrain.
The enigmatic
remains from Pyrenean mountains to Iranian deserts have a
formality and resonance that repeats itself over time and
culture, echoing back through history as the circle, square,
cruciform or saltire, which constitutes the basis that informs
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