I noticed this unfinished monument in Bethnal Green, London, in the park next to the tube. It is awaiting funds for completion. It commemorates the 173 people who died in a crush of people entering the tube in 1943 to take shelter from German bombing.
It’s unfinishedness, with the front of the concrete pillar being muffled (muzzled) by a wooden box echoes the cover up of the incident during the war and in the intervening 60 odd years it has taken the local people to get something erected.
I noticed it because it reminded me of conversations I have had with Jo about her work. It also reminds me of ‘Peach’ by Jackson Sprague shown at Cole gallery East London in his solo show: A House the Size of A Head (2014). Something Pat posts (below) – about noticing not just with your eyes, but with your senses and your body. I often notice through my eyes as if they hurt with the feeling of something – its weight, touch, absence, tilt …. ‘Peach’ (below) has hanging ‘arms’, that are slightly prevented from hanging vertically by the based which just catches their ends and makes them bend.