[Leica] Anthony Gormley - another place

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

What fun, from you and Gormley.

I look forward to your low-tide return.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies

On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> I paid a visit to the Anthony Gormley sculpture in Crosby just to  
> the north
> of Liverpool in the UK last weekend. Gormley has created 100 or so  
> life
> sized castings of his body and they are placed over the beach at  
> Crosby.
> There are a few snaps here...
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/sunsworth/gormley/
>
> I concentrated on one or two of the sculptures because there was a  
> high tide
> when I arrived :-), a place to revisit at low tide when the statues  
> further
> down the beach will be available to photograph. The corrosion  
> caused by the
> salt water gives the pieces an attractive texture and the ones that  
> are only
> revealed at low tide apparently have a lot of sea-life growing on  
> them.
>
> The statues were meant to be removed and exhibited in New York, but  
> they've
> had a stay of execution which means they'll be on this beach for at  
> least a
> few more months.
>
> The light was superb when I arrived, low and very bright, this  
> changed while
> I was there and became very dark and overcast. That's the North- 
> West for you
> :-)
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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