“Phallic” Fourth Plinth splits opinion after being unveiled by London Mayor Sadiq Khan (telegraph.co.uk).
“As David Shrigley’s seven-metre sculpture Really Good was unveiled [on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth] on Thursday, critics drew their own conclusions on the work—apparently split into two distinct camps. While many have applauded the ‘thumbs up’ sculpture as depicting a charming and positive message, others branded it ugly and phallic.”
I must say that does look more than a little like a hand pullin’ on a long but skinny something else; welcome to London!
For those that may be tempted to sample the tourist attraction that is London, and indeed, a large part of our economy, Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, the name commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory in the Napoleonic Wars with France and Spain with Nelson himself—or a statue of—(Nelson’s Column, seen in the right of the photo above artist Mr Shrigley) at its center with those other plinths around it. “Really Good?”; perhaps “That’s Really Good!”, Nelson Gripping His Victory Column might have been a more apt title, and so thankful I am that our sexualised society is obviously if Freudian slipishly not limited merely to pop culture.
Regardless, for the seemingly “power” obsessed—at least obsessed with saying—Labour London Mayor (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk, updated 27th Sept. 2016) it’s obviously dirty rotten Trot Comrade Corbyn’s fault if it doesn’t get them elected—again.
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