I had a cappuccino in a flat which overlooks the Thames at the bend in the river by Canary Wharf where one stretch looks south-west towards the Shard and the other south towards Greenwich. I only half remembered that there is an Antony Gormley figure which presumably was installed by Ian McKellan and stands as a rather rusty sentinel as the tide comes up:-
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Oh, the symbolism and various interpretations of a rusted statue of man, seemingly covered in bird shit….. In the river. Thank you Charles, I love this find, and so many of your other views of the unknown or forgotten.
Yes, I wondered if it was bird shit ! Interestingly, it looks much better like this than it did five minutes later in the sun. Charles
I hadn’t realised that there was a Gormley in the Thames. Thank you. They are wonderfully resonant and poignant figures, particularly when covered and uncovered by tides as at Morecombe, and here.
Yes, I’ve never seen the Gormleys on Crosby beach although we always mean to. I liked the single figure. Charles