Walk This Way?

As the roads were still a bit icy this morning I chose to leave the motorbike at home & took the train to work. Returning home, I nipped back to Paddington Basin, where I blipped the office block a few days ago, & took a smudge of "Walking Man" & "Standing Man" by Sean Henry,who...

"explores the narrative capabilities of sculpture through a variety of strategies; by using more than one figure; by the economical use of contemporary iconography; and by a masterful ability to suggest psychological presence. His figurative sculptures are self-contained, often pensive, preoccupied by their inner imaginings and are even slightly melancholy. They exude what the ancient Greeks used to call sophrosyne, or self-control. This sense of being grounded is central to Henry's figures and creates their strong physical presence, their sense of being and enduring."

Make of that what you will. What I'll say is that at a short distance, in the electric lighting beneath the flyover, they are appear amazingly real but very "other".