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danlansdowne) wrote2008-10-13 11:40 am
danlansdowne) wrote2008-10-13 11:40 am
Maybe they could call it "Mind the Gap"?
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?
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?
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