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Edinburgh Makar: 'I still feel Scott Hutchinson's gargantuan absence'
Hutchinson, from Selkirk in the Borders, died in 2018 after going missing near the Forth Road Bridge.
Writing in The Herald, Pedersen said that his influence still looms large over his work.
Scott Hutchinson (Image: NQ) He said: 'Another commission that reverberated through me when approached was to sculpt something for the Samaritans. I was privileged to write a poem about reaching out for hope in times of despair – flares of light cast into the gathering dark.
'This commission would help catapult their new tartan range, SamariTartan, out into the world. Of course, I think of the cherished friend I lost, Scott Hutchison,in crafting these words. The gargantuan absence his leaving flings across this city in which our friendship was born and burgeoned.
He said: 'Having grown up in the Portobello area of Edinburgh, and also serving as the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, the stakes were immediately set high.
'Edinburgh is a complex beast, abstruse and arcane, hidden Closes and summer rain. I love it, it hurts me, I'm so, so grateful to have been wombed and raised here.
