Maybe they could call it "Mind the Gap"?

[danlansdowne]

Reaper’s grim welcome at St Pancras

Now Paul Day, its sculptor, is at the centre of an even fiercer controversy after announcing plans to decorate the statue’s bare plinth with a bronze frieze featuring an image of a commuter falling into the path of a train driven by a Grim Reaper figure.

Captured in the reflection of a giant pair of sunglasses, the victim is surrounded by onlookers, including a woman with an outstretched arm – either pushing the man over the platform edge or attempting to pull him back from certain death. “It’s ambiguous, it’s not clear,” said Day.

And it's "art" like this that puts government funding of the arts in an ever-perilous position. People don't want their tax money put into dreck like this, and who can blame them?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wait up though, dude--the death scene is only one part of the piece. There's other more positive stuff there, too, and I have to admit it's a pretty powerful piece.

I can understand people getting ruffled by it, but the whole thing is pretty deep and doesn't appear to be just trashy sensationalism.

[(Anonymous)]

(that comment was from EvilJim btw)

[avenginglioness.livejournal.com]

I like the piece. It's very powerful. Sad, confusing. I don't think it belongs anywhere near a train station. That's a bit morbid.