Day 306/21. Sound II

The Crypt has now been re-opened in Winchester Cathedral after many months of being closed due to covid restrictions. Today, I was in there on my own.

Sir Antony Gormley’s sculpture entitled “Sound II” has stood in the Crypt below Winchester Cathedral since the late 1980s. During the rainy months, the mysterious sculpture can often be found holding water in its cupped hands, silent in contemplation as the level rises around him to cover the stone floor.
As he often does, Gormley used his own body to cast the distinctive, moody sculpture, first in plaster. The final piece was then fashioned around the plaster form from sheets of lead, soldered at several joints. The result is both smooth and broken, matte in finish yet gently glowing.
The installation of the sculpture was part of an effort by the cathedral to introduce contemporary art into the Gothic masterpiece.