Went to Crosby, Merseyside recently (mostly to see blues singer/songwriter Ian Parker, who was playing in the evening, but made a day of it by also shooting at Antony Gormley's sculpture "Another Place" - the iron men on Crosby beach)
The sculpture consists of 100 cast iron figures which face out to sea, spread over a 2 mile (3.2 km) stretch of the beach. Each figure is 189 cm tall (nearly 6 feet 2½ inches) and weighs around 650 kg (over 1400 lb).
In common with most of Gormley's work, the figures are cast replicas of the artist's own body. As the tides ebb and flow, the figures are revealed and submerged by the sea. The figures were cast at two foundries, Hargreaves Foundry in Halifax, West Yorkshire and Joseph and Jesse Siddons Foundry in West Bromwich. - Info - Wikipedia
(Antony Gormley is also famous for the "Angel of the North" sculpture near Gateshead, Tyneside).
Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s relationship with nature. Antony Gormley says: “The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth’s substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body, no hero, no ideal, just the industrially-reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.”
Possibly the last one!
The camera flare was included intentionally
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