Rosemary Rimmer-Clay's Blog – 11th mo. 2009 Archive (3)

womensurvive

Create a public work of art to highlight the right of women not

to be subject to domestic violence. Like Antony Gormley's work

the 'Angel of the North',which has fostered Northern pride,

this could be a reference point to highlight the plight of

women subject to hidden abuse.

When women come accross the statue or a reference to it they will

be reminded that there is a way out of their situation. Currently the

average woman experiences 35 attacksbefore she… Continue

Added by Rosemary Rimmer-Clay on 11th mo. 22, 2009 at 7:48pm — No Comments

on being a fourth plinther...

The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square,

Was always an iconic Meeting place.



It has now become a famously empty space.

Where once, for one hundred days

2,400 people enacted thousands of one- hour plays.

When merely sitting brooding in a chair,

Revealed an unacknowledged truth about our national mood,

Identified with the lonely figure, set up there,

Staring down into the thronging square.



Some danced in spangles, or made themselves… Continue

Added by Rosemary Rimmer-Clay on 11th mo. 16, 2009 at 12:31pm — No Comments

still waiting after twenty-one months, for the truth to emerge...

The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square



Is now, as ever, the centre of somewhere...



But as well as being the iconic meeting place



It has now become a famously empty space.



Where once, for one hundred days



2,400 people enacted thousands of one- hour plays.



When merely sitting brooding in a chair,



Became a kind of truth to share,



With the lonely figure, set up there,



Staring down into the thronging… Continue

Added by Rosemary Rimmer-Clay on 11th mo. 14, 2009 at 8:14am — No Comments

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