Public art

I came across this entertaining bit of public art at the Waterloo Roundabout a couple of days ago, entertaining in large part because so many other people were entertaining themselves by climbing onto it.

A rather playful work from which I associated to the sort of thing that one comes across in France and Spain. The green stuff used as a furnishing fabric seems to have taken the public art world by storm, with a number of examples of its use having popped up in and around Waterloo over the past few months.

Inoffensive and hopefully not permanent, unlike the more metallic green stuff springing up all over Hyde Park and its environs. And to my mind in a quite different league from the sort of thing offered by Henry Moore on, for example, Millbank (see 51.489327, -0.127598). Proper art, involving thought, craft, dignity and restraint; something more interesting than huge but otherwise uninteresting egos sprawled all over the place. Let's hope when they have finished the swanky new building on the site of what was Riverwalk House (see, for example, 25th January), they will put the terrace on which the Moore work sits back together again.