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?Living? sculpture a memorial to Fabian

A cedar sculpture commemorating Hurricane Fabian's hit on the Island more than a year ago is now standing on the grounds of Government House and has been appropriately named "Windswept".

Local sculptors Chesley Trott and Dan Dempster finished the 14-foot structure on October 6 after beginning their work in April.

Lady Vereker, the wife of Governor Sir John Vereker, suggested to Mr. Trott and Mr. Dempster that they create the sculptor for Government House utilising the site of a decommissioned fountain. Her idea was to create a living sculptor out of the felled cedar collected from the property in the aftermath of Hurricane Fabian.

The idea behind the sculpture is also to memorialise the four people who died in Hurricane Fabian and the public spirit which helped to rebuild the Island in the aftermath of disaster.

The sculptors designed "Windswept" out of old Bermuda cedar garden fencing. The design was finished off with bromeliads and orchids.

The finished structure is 14 feet in diameter and seven feet high. It is an open lattice of dressed cedar boughs, an intricate and strong cedar arbour built roughly in the shape of an igloo with the heaviest boughs forming the main uprights. The artists also designed the cedar to twist and swirl in a clockwise direction, suggesting the winds of a hurricane and the windblown spray of hurricane seas.

Assistance for the sculpture was provided by the Bermuda Arts Council, Mr. Sheridan Ming of the Ministry of Works and Engineering, Fiona Doe, Capt. Robert Spurling, ADC, and the groundskeepers of Government House.