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Not terribly megalithic, but this article about Mark Wallinger's "Angel of the South"; the large freestanding white horse that is proposed for the Thames area is interesting...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2279274,00.html

I like that a great deal, I hope it gets made. It is really good how it relates to past art / horses but is also rather modern too.

I like Odin's 8-legged horse by the railway here. But it's a bit smaller. Should have been really big too!
http://www.bescot.plus.com/trains/Sleipnir_2/

moss wrote:
Not terribly megalithic, but this article about Mark Wallinger's "Angel of the South"; the large freestanding white horse that is proposed for the Thames area is interesting...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2279274,00.html

Hi Moss,

Hmmm....went past this bit of our Beautific Island t'other day on the Eurostar to Paris..... as far as I can see, it's basically a rubbish dump come post-industrial wasteland just waiting for an IKEA-sponsored London feeder town. Sticking a girt horse in it is hardly going to make an iota of difference.

Why do we need something that purports to be 'a homage to the beauty and proportions of the horse'? I thought we were a nation of dog lovers, anyway.... and you know what happens to horses, don't you?

If they want ridiculously over-sized animals in the South East, There's already a bloody great White Elephant on the banks of the Thames at Greenwich....

Peace

Pilgrim

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