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  1. I have obviously spent too much time in my ivory tower recently; your title had me expecting musings inspired by the youngest of the sisters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

    However, if you’ll permit another literary allusion, even Hirst’s atrocities will eventually pass away:

    ‘And on the pedestal these words appear —
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

  2. Not my cup of tea either, but in terms of publicity for the town it’s done a great job. And then some carbuncles become treasures over time, but no one ever knows which ones get preserved and which ones hated for life. It can’t be planed for, but you should at least try and see what happens.

    • …but you should at least try and see what happens.

      Do I have any choice? It will always be a hideous blight on what is an attractive harbour.

  3. Don’t you agree that to carve it up and melt it down would be a fantastic artistic statement?

      • As a little reminder: Damned Hurts made that comment on the attack on the twin towers, in 2001. A few years later, he and others of his ilk then responded in almost-apoplectic rage when people made that same comment when the Birmingham warehouse burned down with such numinous works as Tracy Enim’s unmade bed, shag tent, etc.

        Nick Park’s (creator of Wallace & Gromit, who lost the originals in the same fire) response was a shrug: “They were just plasticine.” Hats off to you, sir.

  4. Yes, but nice work if you can get it. I’d happily inflict artistic monstrosities on towns if someone was prepared to give me loads of money to do so. Can you blame him?

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