An infinity seat for Ischia signed with my words in blue and dedicated to the 12 people of the island who lost their lives when the mountainside slide following a torrential rainstorm in November 2022.

And one for Arte Sella…signed in red …dedicated to those 11 people who lost their lives during the devastating wind ‘Vaia’ in November 2018 that tore down 14 million trees in a week through the Alps and Dolomite valleys including Arte Sella… they will be linked through the infinity seat represented by two incomplete circles but paired geometrically in mind to make an infinity sign.

It is conceived as a sinuous form composed of two frusta whose interface is a vertical line created as the second frusta is reversed…

This seat is based upon the plan form of an S, which is extruded up as two intersecting cones.

The first three lines of the poem are carved into the seat in Ischia…

The full poem:

S’ Seat

The ebb and flow of life

we seem to move in circles

sometimes incomplete.

In silent thought,

an unexpected view

becomes panoramic.

Lost in dreams

an invisible bird sings

for me as the mist lifts.

Sunrise, sunset, moon

beyond a curved branch

a leaf falls, nearby.

Sinuous form of life

unfolding within the mind

across a landscape.

Reclining, twice placed

upon the grass together

or sometimes alone.

Thoughts construct a seat,

at a specific place

under a white moon.

Rolled silvery steel

hardwood touching softness,

caressing the light.

© Ian Ritchie 2007

Designed 2007

© Ian Ritchie 2007