After years of asking politely for his removal, the statue of Bristol slave-trader Edward Colston was finally taken down from his plinth and dumped in the city dock last week. This action prompted people to get more vocal about not wanting bronze and stone effegies of murderers, looters and racists to be glorified in our city centres.
Once you start looking we have so many statues of awful people that I predict there'll be a statue-mountain and there's nowhere near enough museum space to house them and we can't just melt them down because apparently then we'll forget our history.
My proposal is to display the bastards all together in clearly signposted outdoor parks 'Bastard Parks' so no-one is in any doubt that there's any glorification going on.
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here's some links related to troublesome monuments
One from a few years back
Banksy's idea for Colston
David Olusoga on the Colston performance
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I LOVED Banksy's comment and suggestion for the Colson statue! I think your suggestion for statues that glorify bastards is en pointe! xoxo
ReplyDeleteBanksy's suggestion is great, I love the idea of reframing monuments when we get new perspectives on them xxxooo
DeleteI agree! The park should have a walk of shame for the biggest bastards.
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Brilliant idea. And if there are too many for a park maybe they could be re-housed in a paint-ball arcade.Tank practice on Salisbury Plain?Maybe some new pissoirs?Oh dear- my mind has got the bit between the teeth now!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of a paint ball practise park Di
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