Event Horizon

These are two photos I took of an outdoor sculpture installation by British artist Antony Gormley. The outdoor exhibit was called "Event Horizon" My UK friend Fiona was kind enough to take me to see his works at the Hayward Gallery in Central London when I was there just a few weeks ago. There are a total of 31 of these life-sized figures circling the city, all facing toward the gallery. All were at the skyline level so if you stood on the balcony of the gallery, you could see them near and far ( from 20' to 3/4 a mile away) along the horizon... hence the name. It was a lot of fun just trying to discover all of them. Sometimes they were so far away you could barely make them out. It reminded me of seeing police snipers on roof tops of some of the buildings here in NY when Pres. Bush was in town shortly after 9/11.

The rest of the exhibit was absolutely wonderful. If you find yourself in London before August 19, plan on going to see this. Especially check out his cloud installation called "Blind Light".

To find out more go to: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gormley