Michael Dan Archer

Michael Dan Archer FRSS (born 1955) is a Scottish sculptor and teacher.

It is a stainless steel obelisk, height 7 metres (23 ft), in the shape of a thin sail, with a separate granite panel.

[5][6] "Full Fathom Five", of 2008, is in Pennant Place in Portishead, Somerset, on the edge of the Bristol Channel.

37 of the columns bear vertically incised inscriptions about seafaring: there are names and descriptions of ships, quotes from folk songs, and parts of a poem.

The columns together form the shape of a wave, and are arranged in curved aisles so that visitors can walk among them and read the inscriptions.