Stonehenge 2007 - Brian Fay
Fay took up residence on an excavation that finished 80 years ago. The classic site of Woodhenge was excavated in the 1920s by Maud Cunnington. She discovered an extraordinary henge containing six concentric rings of pits that once held wooden posts. Today, the post settings are marked by concrete bollards colour-coded with paint. Visitors experience the neolithic monument through a deliberately minimalist reconstruction. They are encouraged to look through the reconstruction to the neolithic site it stands in for. The site hovers between times - involving both the “official” time of the neolithic monument, and the resolutely 20th century medium of concrete. The unloved bollards have their own history too, as paint blisters and aggregate erodes.