Describing the work, Gormley has said:
‘To act in time and be acted on by time.
My job is to get as close to matter as possible. I try to reunite any dislocated piece of it with its origins. Thus, I start with ready-formed entities: objects that are the products of either natural or cultural formation, and attempt to represent them to the world in such a way that the relationship becomes active - not as isolated entities but as earth above ground.’
