'Set in Stone' was my first commision for British Land after winning a competition they ran for MA Chelsea College of Art Students.  The outcome of the work was ten poetry paving slabs with the words of young people from the nearby Samuel-Lithgow Youth Centre.  The young peoples poems, about the weather, were written in two short workshops I ran at the centre with the help of Poet Mixy Riccardi.  The Poetry Slabs took the words created in a fleeting moment and holds somewhat memorialises them to allow reflection. The installation aimed to help the young people feel that the commerical mixed use development in their local neighbourhood was a place for them and perhaps let the empherial work visitors to the site in the day consider who might have created the words.

Stone Carving by master carver Gary Churchman