DESCRIPTION:
"When you've gone out too far, and can't find your way back
Come back! I will be your lighthouse..."

Part 2 Remembrance for Stuart Adamson: Please watch Part 1 first if you have the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUTjWFNECg
Thanks.

Music:
"My Only Crime", by Stuart Adamson and Marcus Hummon as The Raphaels
"Troubled Man" and "Come Back to Me" by Stuart Adamson and Big Country

"Lighthouse", by Tom "Diss" Kercheval, backing vocals Joanie Kercheval
Listen to their other stuff: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dissmusic
http://www.myspace.com/dissonline
http://www.myspace.com/joaniekercheval

This is an attempt to give some context to this sculpture I made in Spring 2002 and its reason for existing. My mother described it as "an expulsion of grief".

Diss wrote his song based on the same experience (coping with the suicide of the man we both considered a hero) and I have tried to unite the themes of the song and sculpture.

I actually composed the "closing titles" section first, almost two years ago, and have decided to let them stand unaltered. The comments by Kester Devine capture a particular moment in time - a moment now nearly as distant and unreal to me as it might be to someone who wasn't there at all. Yet it was very real at the time. Life goes on.



Images:
Trouble Man Island, ceramic sculpture, 2002, E. L. Ramos

Pigeon Point Lighthouse, 3 images, copyright Tyler Westcott, http://www.tylerwestcott.com , licensed from G_._._.Y Images.

"Regulus & Comet Lulin" photo copyright Laurie Larson. Used by permission.

Additional Photos:
Diss and Joanie with Stuart Adamson, photo courtesy of Tom Kercheval
Mazz with Tony Butler, photo courtesy of Mazz Nicholas
Dan Rivera, Jen Albright and Bruce Watson, 2006, photos by ELR
Author pic (at "strangers go unanswered") by Laurie Larson

Other photos of Big Country are borrowed from fan magazines or album art.

Misc. object images (Barras, dishes, bottle) borrowed from online catalogs. Hawaii images (Honolulu harbor& tiki torches) borrowed from travel websites.

All other landscape photos by ELR. "Hands" sculpture September 18, 2001, ELR.

Other songs referred to in engraved text: Shattered Cross, Somebody Else, Sailor, Ships, In A Big Country, Fragile Thing, You Dreamer, Devil In The Eye, Porrohman (yeah, I know it's "give us iron, give us rope", but I always heard it as "give us sorrow" -- and after all, he did.)



Special thanks to my family for putting up with me all the while I've been working on this.


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POSTSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 2010

The band lives on - Big Country will be playing more concerts in January 2011 with Mike Peters of the Alarm as lead vocalist. Wow. Sure wish I could be there.