Selected for the 2003-2005 Rincon de Ademuz Sculpture Biennial, Spain. It was awarded the Silver Manzana Prize by the vote of the participating sculptors and is permanently sited.
We drove to the village Arroyo Cerezo, where the sculpture was to be installed, In Chris Butler's vehicle. Chris is the director of Castle Fine Arts Foundry, and we were his first clients when he started his business in 1992. We all became friends with JosĂ© Luis Rodillia one of the organisers of the biennial, as we were put up in his parents place, Phil and Chris had been to the previous Biennial to make Phil's horse sculpture for the same village and it won all the prizes.Â
During the week Phil fixed the work into the walls of an old building in the centre of the village, whilst Diane made more faces in wax for Chris to cast into bronze on the spot, seven faces had previously been cast at his foundry.
Eventually twelve faces were installed, eleven bronze and one glass (cast by Jackson Fawkes Glass).
This village like many others, is losing its young people as they leave to find work, but the walls remember them.
