tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post5345829389748918159..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: This is why Jeremy Deller's We Are Here project was so powerfulDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-45601223591212228242016-07-05T14:16:25.283+01:002016-07-05T14:16:25.283+01:00There were a few at Fenchurch Street - they looked...There were a few at Fenchurch Street - they looked as dazed and disorientated as the usual commuters. I wanted to take a picture, but it felt disrespectful.. Mondohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11199468951602465556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-83811696684216999062016-07-03T00:32:16.200+01:002016-07-03T00:32:16.200+01:00When I saw the roll at Tyne Cot memorial, where t...When I saw the roll at Tyne Cot memorial, where the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were memorialized, it was like hearing my school register being called. Ackroyd, Hodge, Hopkinson, (yes) Hepworth, Parkinson. Horrible.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724425043218124723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-39879449669202315652016-07-02T19:40:00.229+01:002016-07-02T19:40:00.229+01:00I saw this at Manchester Victoria station. It was ...I saw this at Manchester Victoria station. It was uncanny how they captured the air of troops just loafing about, waiting to embark on a troop ship, or to go up the lines to the front, part listless and bored, part apprehensive.<br /><br /> The fact that it was in relatively modern surroundings was quite poignant, knowing that we still seem happy to send our young men off to die in pointless conflicts.Huwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743262251212584449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-22462957033814447602016-07-02T17:35:04.670+01:002016-07-02T17:35:04.670+01:00"They were us."
They still are. Crimina..."They were us."<br /><br />They still are. Criminal shame that too few take any notice and even fewer are interested.<br /><br />I knew nothing of this and spent most of yesterday hiding from the Summer Rain, so if any of it happened here, everybody I know missed it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16493567800389632669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-69524617266173879502016-07-02T11:01:04.388+01:002016-07-02T11:01:04.388+01:00Fantastically powerful. But the coverage made it s...Fantastically powerful. But the coverage made it sound like a side show, although almost certainly hundreds, possibly thousands, of times more people would have seen it cf. the official ceremonies. <br /><br />It seems that if the media don't have a press release and 24 hrs notice, they can't cover it. The BBC TV news piece, with the reporter doing a piece to camera whilst strolling through the soldiers, certainly missed the point of the silent contemplation. <br /><br />It was by far the most moving thing from yesterday. Only found out it was Jeremy Dellar this morning. There have been other artists involved in the commemoration who appear to think the commissioned works were all about them.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13414201846662759595noreply@blogger.com