Artist David Mackie is working on the art feature in the Diaspora Gardens at Heartlands. Working with local schools and community groups David has designed a series of symbols that will depict the Cornish Diaspora regions - New Zealand, Australia, South America, North America and South America. Each of these regions where the Cornish travelled will have its own garden at Heartlands with flowers and plants from these countries.
The Diaspora images and symbols will be reproduced in bronze and fixed on to granite boulders sourced from Delank quarry in Bodmin.
David is currently creating the patterns of the symbols in clay (as seen in the photo above which shows a Mexican coin) that will then be covered in rubber to produce a mould. The mould will be sent to a foundry who will cast the symbols in bronze.
Take a look at David's blog to see his patterns of just some of the symbols that will be fixed to the granite boulders.
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