The media used in this pair is different, however, both works concerns with the theme of architecture in distinctive perspectives. In Sculpture for Calton Hill, Kate Whiteford drew patterns of fish and spirals using white charcoals on Calton Hill, whereas Nathan Coley constructs a land of religious buildings composed of cardboards.

In Sculpture for Calton Hill, Kate Whiteford succeeds in showing an interesting dialogue between the existing neoclassical architecture on Calton Hill and the monochrome pattern of the fish and spirals. The juxtaposition is rather intriguing, the work set in the surrounding of the breath-taking hilltop, where a classical and humanistic temple from the Scottish Enlightenment is in contrast with the naturalistic symbols of the fish and the spirals. Whiteford’s creativity in this seminal land based work is stimulating; it reveals various layers of dynamic interpretation that transforms the original landscape, the memory and the history of the specific site. …show more content…
Whiteford achieves this transformation and illuminating illusion by adding land art to the specific site, whereas Nathan Coley reconstructs a fictional land in The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship. It is an installation composed of 286 religious and spiritual buildings that were listed in the 2004 Edinburgh Yellow Pages directory under ‘places of worship’. Therefore it is like a social document of a particular place at a particular