London Elephants No. 9

Oct 142013

the erith pile of fish

Fish Sculpture, Erith - click to enlarge

WHAT IS IT?

Don’t know

WHAT’S IT FOR?

Don’t know

WHO PUT IT THERE?

Don’t know

IF YOU ORDERED THE FISH MEDLEY IN ONE OF THOSE RESTAURANTS THAT SERVES EVERYTHING HEAPED UP IN THE MIDDLE OF AN OVERSIZED WHITE PLATE WITH AN UNSPECIFIED BROWN DRIBBLE ROUND THE EDGE, D’YOU RECKON IT WOULD LOOK A BIT LIKE THIS?

Very probably. Only these fish are heaped up in the middle of a roundabout in Erith. There was some unspecified brown dribble round the edge, though. I think it might have been dried blood.

… in case you’re wondering, London Elephants are those things which, though indisputably there are, like the elephant in the room, easier to ignore than to discuss, because otherwise… well…

Tagged with: Animals, Art, Erith, London Elephants, Matt Haynes, Roads, Sculpture, water

Looking back through the clouds…

The Six-Lane Spectre

by Julian Ridgway
It was a motorway. Or was once meant to be. One that would have stretched from the river to the M1, and then round a whole city-manacling circuit of similar pre-cast gaugings. The London Motorway Box. A high-flying lap of the city, with slip roads. This particular piece would have flown or carved through much of West London, even leaping over the Earl’s Court exhibition halls. I emitted a tender gasp of Brutalist desire. [read more...]