A Load of Balls and Junk Mail: 'We never create, we merely rearrange.'
Best known for his sculptural furniture, Carl Hahn's current project 'The Rings' represents a significant change in his practice, 'bringing me out of the shed and into engaging with people and the landscape'.

The Rings is an ambitious work, described as 'possibly the largest composite wooden sculpture in the world', comprising 9,000 carved, weathered oak rings that will be sited in the landscape over the five years leading up to the Olympics in 2012. Each interlinked group of rings will reflect the location, context and the consensual will of the communities that, with Carl, design and assemble it.

At Rocombe, Carl is making a simulacrum of The Rings with old tyres from the farm, cut and arranged as a chain mail panel on the hill opposite. Mulching will result in an after-image or 'print' on the land once the sculpture has moved. Tyre rings will also be interlocked to form spheres that will be sited around the farm. Inherently collaborative, the project's intent is both playful and provocative in its apparent simplicity:

'The physical nature of the rings is very close to the idea of the rings. We require separation and distinctions in order to operate, but they are only models of a reality where everything is joined up.'

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