{"id":763,"date":"2007-12-30T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/30\/horror-stories-frozen-in-time\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T13:22:50","slug":"horror-stories-frozen-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/30\/horror-stories-frozen-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror stories (Frozen in time)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Horror<\/a><\/p>\n

In doing my homework on things to see while I was in Dublin early in December, I was particularly struck by the description in one book of “Famine”, a sculpture group by Rowan Gillespie. The sculptures represent victims of the enormously tragic famine of the mid-1800’s, where a full quarter of the Irish population died or left the country in hopes of better elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I walked out to the sculptures on the first of my two nights in Dublin (which was a long<\/em> haul). It was indeed a incredibly powerful piece of art, perhaps more so in the dark. It was a bit weird, though, to have the holiday lights as the back drop for this harrowing set of figures.<\/p>\n

It’s not clear in the shot above, but the man is carrying what I presume to be a small girl across his shoulders, and is bowed beneath her weight. Quite terrifying, really.<\/p>\n

\"Moving<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadly, as the assassination of Benzir Bhutto<\/a> makes clear, we’re still learning how to live together on this small rock, and often not doing a great job of it.<\/p>\n\n\t

\n\tTags: Art<\/a>, Dublin<\/a>, history<\/a>, my photography<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, sculpture<\/a>
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