The connection between art and nature inspired the Sculpture Down the Lachlan Trail, and the local landscape inspired David Ball to create Wandering.
"I’ve always been a person who makes a sculpture for the landscape," the artist said at the official opening of the trail on Saturday.
"The landscape’s in my bones and it’s my territory, my playground, and I wanted to make a piece that fit in and became part of the landscape – the landscape was talking to it and it was talking to the landscape."
So after meeting with Forbes Arts Society he travelled to the site, drove through the landscape and - in his words - felt its breadth.
"I wanted it to have a geological feel to it, a bit like the iron escarpments that just come up out of the ground - they’re like the bones of the earth," he said.
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Crafted out of Corten steel, as it ages in the landscape it's taking the colour of that earth.
"It’s the colour of red oxide which is the colour of iron ore which is where it’s come from," Ball said.
Wandering, as the name suggests, is one of the works that you need to get out of the car and walk around and through to experience.
"I do try to make work that you can move through, sometimes I make them so you can look up and sometimes it creates a frame for a landscape," Ball said.
He'd encourage everyone to make their way along the trail - from Forbes to Condobolin along the Lachlan Valley Way - with time to visit the sculptures.
"There’s something for everybody with all of them," he said.
"It’s great, some of them are fun, some of them are poetic, some of them are lifelike, some are full of spirit."
