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DISHFORTH MISSING MAN

Client - Stonewater Housing

This sculpture was designed for Dishforth in North Yorkshire, a village next to a WW2 airbase. It is based on the missing man formation, an aerial salute to fallen comrades, flown by the RAF, the USAF and Royal Canadian Air Force. 

There is an Armstrong Whitney bomber plane represented on the top of the sculpture. The letters used in the inscription were designed specifically for this project and are based on the angles found on the plane.

I collaborated with the poet Olivia Mulligan who used the results of writing workshops held in the two local schools to compose a poem for the project. Dishforth retains a strong connection to its history, the poem references this but also looks forward with positivity to the future. 

There are maple leaves falling from the tail of the plane that intermingle with the words of the poem to represent the Canadian airmen who lost their lives flying from RAF Dishforth. 

Sculpture of a WW2 Armstrong Whitney.world war two era bomber spiralling up from the groud. There is a poem carved into the sculpture

THE STORY OF HOME

If you listen Carefully

You can hear today's birdsong 

Carried be yesterdays breeze

Blowing the maple leaves 

That have fallen

Whispering

The story of Home

Carved into stone

Our history is alive

Beginning with an ending

The precise moment

Never known

Never known

But never forgotten

Never-ending with a beginning

Forever sending us hope

The story of Home

If you listen Carefully

You can hear today's birdsong 

Carried be yesterdays breeze

Blowing the maple leaves 

That have fallen

Whispering

The story of Home

By Olivia Mulligan

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