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People establish a relationship with the sculpture through familiarity, and a subliminal bond occurs. The relationship moves from the practical to the aesthetic by quiet engagement, rather than through confrontation. Many of David Annand's sculptures have poems commissioned and engraved on them... His sculpture Nae Day Sae Dark, in Perth, Scotland, was inspired by the late poet William Soutar. David explains: "… each time I am commissioned I try to use a local poet. The poetry slows down passersby and helps them relate to the piece. I worked with Seamus Heaney on a piece in the Marie Curie Centre in Belfast and in Bellaghy."... David A Annand is a Scottish sculptor based in Kilmany, Fife. David Annand`s work has rapturous joy and life, which shines through in all his work and is one of the reasons he is in such demand for portraits, commemorative sculptures in public places. He is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

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