Merkinch Circles

2015
Lettered sandstone and postcards
Commissioned by Highland Council as part of River Connections
Collaborator: Ken Cockburn
Supporting organisations: Merkinch Arts and Breathe, Merkinch

Local people worked with poet, Ken Cockburn, to respond to the area at the mouth of the River Ness. Mary Bourne then taught them letter cutting, enabling them to carve their poems into stone to be incorporated into a seating area overlooking the mouth of the Ness.