Thirtyfootscrew’s Blog

I just saw a BBC News story (seen here on the Times Online) stating that Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger is to build a gigantic white horse to mark the building of a new Eurostar station. The massive horse is going to cost a total of £3million ($4.4 million) and according to The Time will have testicles that have “the volume of a people carrier” each! Now this seems crazy, but I love it for two main reasons…

Firstly, it’s absolutely stark raving mad but in a very British way – the fact that out of all of the potential subjects for an enormous status (bigger than the Statue of Liberty) it’s the most quintessentially British of animals – a white thoroughbred horse. Secondly I love it because its quite rare these days for people to build enormous and essentially pointless structures (Millennium Dome excepted).

I honestly can’t wait for this “Angel of the South”, it’s given me one of those rare moments where I’m glad to be British and when it opens (perhaps even before) I’ll be one of the first down there to have a look.

written by thirtyfootscrew