It’s a great picture, but boy I was disappointed in the Gormley men when I saw that they are identical. What a difference it would have made if the statues had been even slightly different from each other.
They are no longer identical though. I’m reminded of the famous lines from Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality: “Like the statue of Glaucus, which was so disfigured by time, seas and tempests, that it looked more like a wild beast than a god,….”
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Alan White 12.04.22 at 3:44 pm
I saw this on your pages and hoped you’d post it. What are those figures? Great photo for composition and intrigue.
Chris Bertram 12.05.22 at 10:36 am
Thanks Alan. Here’s the background to the figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Place_(sculpture)
Lynne 12.05.22 at 1:43 pm
It’s a great picture, but boy I was disappointed in the Gormley men when I saw that they are identical. What a difference it would have made if the statues had been even slightly different from each other.
Chris Bertram 12.06.22 at 10:47 am
Thanks @Lynne
They are no longer identical though. I’m reminded of the famous lines from Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality: “Like the statue of Glaucus, which was so disfigured by time, seas and tempests, that it looked more like a wild beast than a god,….”
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