Verity Defies Brian
Verity, noun, a true principle or belief. Latin Veritas.
Verity, the large statue on the breakwater, stands at 20.25 metre (66.43 ft) tall, and weighs 25 tonnes. She is on long term loan to North Devon Council as a gift from London and Devon based artist Damien Hirst.
The sculpture is an allegory (a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences) for truth and justice. Her stance is taken from Edgar Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (c. 1881). An anatomical cross-section of her head and torso reveal her skull and the developing foetus inside her womb.
Standing on a base of scattered legal books, Verity holds the traditional symbols of justice - a sword and scales. Representing truth, her scales are hidden and off-balance behind her back, whilst her sword is held confidently in her upstretched arm.
Verity was fabricated in bronze in over 40 individual sand castings at Pangolin Editions foundry, in Gloucestershire. Her phosphor-bronze surface is 20 millimetres thick and her internal support structure is a single piece of stainless steel. The sculpture is weather and lightning-proof and underwent extensive-tunnel-testing to ensure her capability of withstanding the force of high winds and sea spray. This picture was taken at the height of Storm Brian.
Verity is currently at Ilfracombe which is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with this small harbour surrounded by cliffs.
The parish stretches along the coast from the 'Coastguard Cottages' in Hele Bay toward the east and 4 miles along the Torrs to Lee Bay toward the west. The resort is hilly and the highest point within the parish boundary is at 'Hore Down Gate', 2 miles inland and 860 feet (270 m) above sea level.
Storm Brian was named by Met Éireann and impacted the British Isles on 21 October 2017.
Shortly after ex-Hurricane Ophelia, an area of low pressure began to rapidly intensify across the Atlantic and yellow and orange wind warnings were issues leading to Met Éireann naming the storm.
Storm Brian brought strong gusts across the UK coinciding with highs tides. Impacts were most significant in Ireland and Wales with flash flooding in a number of Irish cities, while in Wales a number of seafront roads were closed and many ferries and trains cancelled.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verity_(statue)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilfracombe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_European_windstorm_...
Verity Defies Brian
Verity, noun, a true principle or belief. Latin Veritas.
Verity, the large statue on the breakwater, stands at 20.25 metre (66.43 ft) tall, and weighs 25 tonnes. She is on long term loan to North Devon Council as a gift from London and Devon based artist Damien Hirst.
The sculpture is an allegory (a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences) for truth and justice. Her stance is taken from Edgar Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (c. 1881). An anatomical cross-section of her head and torso reveal her skull and the developing foetus inside her womb.
Standing on a base of scattered legal books, Verity holds the traditional symbols of justice - a sword and scales. Representing truth, her scales are hidden and off-balance behind her back, whilst her sword is held confidently in her upstretched arm.
Verity was fabricated in bronze in over 40 individual sand castings at Pangolin Editions foundry, in Gloucestershire. Her phosphor-bronze surface is 20 millimetres thick and her internal support structure is a single piece of stainless steel. The sculpture is weather and lightning-proof and underwent extensive-tunnel-testing to ensure her capability of withstanding the force of high winds and sea spray. This picture was taken at the height of Storm Brian.
Verity is currently at Ilfracombe which is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with this small harbour surrounded by cliffs.
The parish stretches along the coast from the 'Coastguard Cottages' in Hele Bay toward the east and 4 miles along the Torrs to Lee Bay toward the west. The resort is hilly and the highest point within the parish boundary is at 'Hore Down Gate', 2 miles inland and 860 feet (270 m) above sea level.
Storm Brian was named by Met Éireann and impacted the British Isles on 21 October 2017.
Shortly after ex-Hurricane Ophelia, an area of low pressure began to rapidly intensify across the Atlantic and yellow and orange wind warnings were issues leading to Met Éireann naming the storm.
Storm Brian brought strong gusts across the UK coinciding with highs tides. Impacts were most significant in Ireland and Wales with flash flooding in a number of Irish cities, while in Wales a number of seafront roads were closed and many ferries and trains cancelled.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verity_(statue)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilfracombe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_European_windstorm_...