Making an Impression

Some years ago I visited my daughter whilst she was at University, on a trip to the local pub we came across ……

Feeling this might be a rather extreme form of abstract art, I asked why it was here.

Apparently the chap had fallen out with the planning department over some modifications and settled on this rather more attention seeking alteration.

Which reminds me of a neighbour of my first wife’s parents.

They lived in the South of France in a lovely private park, well of course they would it’s nice down there.

Anyway back to the story,the neighbour had just had a new house built in this beautiful private park, and felt that his wife’s car a ‘2CV’ ( yes that’s two horsepower), Citroen was perhaps not in keeping with the gawdy modernistic box they had just constructed, so he had a white stone plinth built , took the car to a scrap dealer and had it ‘cubed’ ,then placed in the garden as a statue, he said for his wife’s birthday…

Unfortunately cars are made from metal, when metal gets wet it rusts, so said statue on white plinth now looks quite tacky covered in rust.

a definite case of post modernistic fatigue.

Fortunately some folks are much more creative and artistic when recycling old items..

The City of Amsterdam is a case in point. Captured on a street corner was….

Which I’m pretty sure is a spent cannon from the days of tall ships, Nelson, Hawkins and Frobisher, oh all right if you insist let’s add Henry the navigator – as he was Portuguese.

So to find something more modern…. found hiding in the Floriade of 1992 was this fascinating parting of the waters.

Finally I guess we must find something at least a tad attractive, useful, and functional….

The modern periscope.

Well it meets the functionality test, fails on useful as it’s blocking everyone else’s view, and it’s not very attractive…mmm on reflection I’ll stick to watching Formula One on the TV !