Eye - 15 July 2011
Seaford peace garden
Cultivating peace
In an old walled garden near the centre of Seaford a twelve-foot-tall figure stands amid the shrubs. At one side of the path letters carved in stone prompt us to ‘walk cheerfully over the world’ while on the other side of the garden a tablet urges us to ‘make time to listen’. A white peace pole expresses the hope: ‘may peace prevail on Earth’ in English, Spanish, Japanese and Arabic. Four benches give the space a sense of the locality. Representing the white cliffs of the south coast, their bases are filled with chalk and their surfaces rise in waves like the land.
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