George Square, Glasgow: One Statue Worships Another
Glasgow, 2007. Inflatable statues bend and sway in the May sunlight in George Square, amid tents celebrating Swedish football. I stared at them; their movements seemed bizarre, as if retching, drunk, the elbow crease of escaping air resembling a stomach convulsing, heaving. Conversely, the arms waved as if in perpetual supplication, in a slavish dance of worship. Such is football.
Plastic And Full Of Wind: Download (847)
Those things are much more fun to watch if music is playing. They seem to eerily dance to the music. Alcohol helps, too.
May 27th, 2007 at 4:37 am