RISE
Public
artwork on the Broadway roundabout off
the Falls Road in West Belfast. Artist:
Wolfgang Buttress, 2011, white
and silver steel, 37.5 m high x 30 m wide.
The newspaper calls it a Meccano artwork
The structural engineer hopes it will
inspire children to be engineers
The city council hopes it will inspire unity
and a new dawn
The artist references the sun and the
reeds before us
The locals call it The Balls of the Falls
On a better day it’s the Westicle
They like it
Great images of Rise here.
The Westicle! Ha!
ReplyDeleteLovely. Thanks for sharing this pic too, what a great piece. (Both poem and sculpture).
ReplyDeleteand in Macao -- we have Stanley Ho's Erection (Macao Tower) and Stanley Ho's Testicle (New Lisboa Casino)
ReplyDelete... proving that male genital architecture is everywhere
lol, wonderful, Lizz
ReplyDeleteI love the heirarchy that falls down the lines here too. Just like the peoples do. Just gorgeous.
ReplyDeletehaha, a good set!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. Yes they are find of the big erections - but the nicknames don't always rhyme and pun :)
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