rain stories is a permanent installation commissioned by the Melton City Council for the Melton Waves Leisure Center, it spans the back wall of the Melton Waves Leisure Centre pool.
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This work was a way to bring the focus of pool users onto every drop, every water molecule, in the pool at the Leisure Centre. To bring focus onto the role of water in the our lives, in the land, rivers, creatures… to think about the water cycle. How fundamental rain and water is to our existence.
By building a wall of stories about rain with a visual reference to falling rain a connection is made to the water cycle, our reliance on fresh water and our love of playing in water.
The work gathers together 86 stories about rain into a ‘curtain of rain’. Some of the ‘rain stories’ were collected from the local community, some collected from living and dead authors and poets, some detailing facts about rain in general and rain in the Melton area with some written by me… read all stories HERE
