Atelier East

Look Out Post - Girl Guides Summer Celebrations

Between the 16th and 21st of August, as part of their ‘Look’ Summer Camp, we worked with Girl Guides, Brownies and Rainbows in the middle of a huge cow field at Stow-cum-Quy, near Cambridge, to create this sculpture - Look Out Post.

The weather was wet and windy, but luckily the girls didn’t mind and we were able to create our ‘Look’ themed piece out of plenty of colourful plastic rubbish items! The sculpture is based on the idea of a hiding place or den, somewhere that you can shelter and look out on the world. The structure winds its way around the tree, meaning you can get right inside and look out through the kaleidoscope of colours.

‘Look Out Post’ survived gusting winds and heavy rain, and was left standing so that it could be a focal piece for the Country Fair… but then it had to come down so that the cows could come back to their field and wouldn’t even notice that we’d been there!