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| Love Statue, St Julian's |
Everyone likes a bit of public art-works dotted around the place. A city with none would be a dreary place indeed. What would Paris be without the Eiffel Tower looming in the background? What would Dublin be without the Spire? What's that? You're not familiar with the Spire of Dublin? Well it's an enormous metal spike in the middle of O'Connell street, winning entry in the search for a suitably impressive object to celebrate the millenium. I had two fantastic ideas for this competition myself, since you ask: an enormous statue of Finn MacCumhail to be placed in some remote field, or if you don't like that one, 200 life-sized statues of regular Dublin folk to be situated around the city in naturalistic poses. Sadly, I was extremely busy at the end of the '90's and did not as a consequence have time to submit either entry. Your loss, Ireland.
