I'll Be Dead Soon

Don't worry, not me!!

I'm a creature of habit and often eat the same meals in a restaurant, walk the exact same path when I'm going somewhere and generally just tend to stick to what I know. Today, however, I decided to take the left hand path through Whitworth Park instead of the right. I'm trying to be spontaneous.

In the distance I could see a stack of stones so figured it was worth a look. I like piles of things or stones that are neatly balanced.

I took a few photos from the front and it just appeared to be three round stones with a plaque leaning against it. Pretty boring and I wondered if it was worth the extra walk from the right hand path!

I noticed a sign stuck in the grass and it said 'Nate Lowman, Snowman, 2014' and as I looked back and saw it from another angle, the carrot nose appeared! I literally did not see anything at all until the words gave meaning to the statue! The plaque, which first seemed blank, read "I'll Be Dead Soon". And here's me boasting about how blip has opened my eyes!

The only thing I could find online is that "the message contrasts with the permanence of the bronze sculpture which is everlasting".

In the background, you can see a concrete plinth - art or just a concrete plinth? It seems this was once the home of Gustav Metzger’s Flailing Trees - 21 upended willow trees plunged into a bed of concrete. The denuded trees, reduced to a wild arrangement of roots, were Metzger’s protest at human brutality against nature. 

The third statue I came across at lunch is my extra photo which I've affectionately named "tinned veg". What could it mean? Is it representative of the current need for food banks? Is it the argument of value range food over branded goods? Perhaps a gift to the Whitworth God's? A clue in a treasure hunt? I will forever wonder!

Quote for today:
First we had Nature.
And then came the Environment.
Environment is the smoke Humanity has put on Nature.
- Gustav Metzger