Jenny Holzer at Blenheim

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I visited Blenheim Palace with a friend, to attempt to photograph the 'art' of Jenny Holzer. 
It was a very thought provoking evening and I've added a couple of Extras, to give a flavour of the artwork. 

Written by Skye Sherwin in the Guardian......

.....You have to wait for darkness to fall to appreciate how Holzer has brought the notion of “soft power” out in the open. On War, a work in which damning words are beamed across the gravel and up the ornamented facades in crisp white lines, is coldly magnificent and brutal, like being caught inside the credits from the original Star Wars movies, or the searchlights of helicopters or prisons. Holzer has responded to the palace’s baroque hyperbole with an eye for an eye, matching its over-the-top grandeur with intense spectacle and wrenching emotion. This is not a subtle show, but Blenheim is not a subtle building.