In 2010 the Swansea Canal Society commissioned me to create a seating
sculpture to celebrate the industrial heritage of Pontardawe. Over the
years the Society has collected various artefacts, old tools and bits of
machinery and I was asked to incorporate this material into the
sculpture. One of the items was a cast-iron railway wagon
wheel from the Bryn Tinplate works in Ynysmeudwy.
The
video shows me as a ghostly figure crossing and re-crossing a bridge
while pushing the wheel. The bridge, which is now a footbridge and
cycleway over the river Tawe, was once the rail bridge that took
materials and tinplate to and from the Glanrhyd Tinplate works - the
ruins of which can still be seen in the woods of the Glantawe Riverside
Park close to the bridge.