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Silbury Hill

Silbury Hill

moss M
moss Mar 9, 2009 08:54:02
Replying to nigelswift

Okay you don't like modern art, but what about Wallinger's giant white horse that is to be the Kent southern equivalent of the northern 'Angel'... middle England has struck again, and with disregard for history a great ******** replica of a Barbie like animal will hit you in the eye, why do they let children play with the landscape ;)

N nigelswift
nigelswift Mar 9, 2009 09:17:54
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Okay you don't like modern art, but what about Wallinger's giant white horse that is to be the Kent southern equivalent of the northern 'Angel'... middle England has struck again, and with disregard for history a great ******** replica of a Barbie like animal will hit you in the eye, why do they let children play with the landscape ;)
No, I'm with SL, I know there is some great modern art, it's just the stuff that gets under the door that irks me. And yes, I know it's a mistake to say the good stuff is the stuff I like but some of it, well....

Great expression about the barbie horse, "why do they let children play with the landscape." They shouldn't. It matters. Uffington great. This, pure vandalism - http://www.wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk/kilburn_nelson.html
Maybe anything in the landscape should go to a popular vote as it's the public's landscape. And I would trust the aesthetic sensibilities of the great unwashed rather more than whoever approved the Barbie one.

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