SFX: Music that echoes the circular motif— repeating, undulating chords  

TONY CRAGG:  

My name is Tony Cragg. The language of Guglie is circles, very simple geometry.  

Guglie – actually means “spire”, it was the spire of the church. 

SFX: A subtle, far off church bell…  

CRAGG:  

I started looking for materials and I just decided to find circular objects – tires, discs, cogs, machine parts, ah, wooden objects, wheels, everything that was just circular and then I just stacked the whole thing up. 

SFX: Metal pieces clanking against each other as they are sorted and stacked.  

CRAGG:  

The thing actually dictated its own form and I found a great elegance in that, that having decided about how to make it, that I didn’t really have to do very much, just have to keep stacking it up in a very sort of common sense way. 

The layering…I mean it was sort of like making one’s own geology. 

You can actually see certain things in the landscape or the shape of hills and you know more or less what is under there. Whether…the Ice Age ripped over it…Or whether it’s been under the ocean…  

We see the world due to the fact that light touches the surface and it goes in our eyes. So we only see the surface. But I always feel that we have a kind of psychological need to see beyond that surface and I think that the sculpture kind of deals with that. 

SFX: Music fades