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The artist said that he chose a thoroughbred because it was a British horse which we exported to the world.
Didn’t we import the Darley Arabian from Syria, Byerly Turk and Godolphin Arabian?
Mark
Value Is Everythingthe only angel
to have been priced up
and inherited
everythng that lay before him
including the kingdom of georgeIt even happened to Dessie one Christmas, back in 1987, when he was sent off even-money for the King George and trailed in 15 lengths behind Nupsala, the French-trained outsider. Though then only eight, and with his best years still to come, Desert Orchid was the subject of a withering inquest and plenty of snap assessments that too many hard races had taken their toll.
Yes, but they were Arabian, and we bred them with British and Irish mares to produce the thoroughbred.
Memory slightly dodgy. Was it Phil Bull or me who said that the thoroughbred was man’s noblest creation?
It’s a horse so it’s pleasing on the eye…but wholly and woefully unimaginative; no more than a 3-D version of the numerous white horses carved into hillsides throughout England.
And quite why it took a Turner Prize winner to "design" it is beyond me: it’s a bleeding horse for chrissakes.
I’d have preferred a 3-D version of the Cerne Abbas Giant with priapic cock pointing proudly over the straits of Dover
Now you’re talking, Drone! Guaranteed to send the thin-lipped NIMBYists of Kent spiralling into new levels of impotent rage.
Which, given the fertility symbolism / connotations of the Cerne Abbas Giant, would be quite ironic.
Incidentally, some wag on Five Live last night suggested that the only fitting name for a horse this big would be Dobbinatrix.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I wonder how the shareholders of Land Securities feel about having to stump up half of the £2m costs?
To my mind spending £2m on a sculpture in the current economic climate, on a day when unemployments is expected to top 2m, strikes me as being somewhat obscene.
Couched in those terms I suppose the timing might seem unfortunate, but would this not have been money committed long before the economic slowdown ever became this manifest?
I’d regard it as a white horse of aesthetic pleasure, rather than a white elephant of excess and misappopriation. I bloody well like it, anyway.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
There’s something quite wonderful about such landmarks..when we used to travel with the kids to Cornwall they always looked out for the camel in the field on the way down that had been left there after a village carnival
….I still get quite emotional when I see the Angel when travelling ‘up north] and nothing will ever better that…..ars longa vita brevis…..
The Wicker Man situated between M5 and GWR Mainline in Somerset is a handsome fella
Anyone know what he’s made of?
Straw, livestock and lightly toasted extra virgin Scottish policeman, if memory serves.
Altogether now;
"Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!"http://pinguicula.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/07/lordsummerisle.jpg
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
The Wicker Man situated between M5 and GWR Mainline in Somerset is a handsome fella
Anyone know what he’s made of?
Not seen it Drone but is it Wicker?
Mark
Value Is EverythingVery good Ginger, what a fool I am
Nice pic of Christopher Lee having a bad hair day GC
Didn’t really rate the film myself, not first time around nor when I gave it another bash a couple of years ago.
The folky-occult is a bit of a turn-off when taken seriously. Laughing at a good hammy Hammer Horror is more my cup of virgin’s blood
The Wicker Man situated between M5 and GWR Mainline in Somerset is a handsome fella
Anyone know what he’s made of?
Weirdly enough, that’s the same conversation I was having in the office today. He’s officially the Willow Man
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V. glad Mark Wallinger’s submission was chosen – not only is it nice to see horses get so much press, but the other designs were bloody awful!
Edit: oops, sorry for bending the thread shape.
Thank you Sal
Just wikied ‘Willow Man’ and there he is, built in homage to the willow trades of the Somerset Levels
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