Giving the St. Pancras ‘Lovers’ Statue’ a second look
My opinion of Paul Day’s giant Meeting Place statue at St. Pancras International remains unchanged: I regard the embracing lovers as a singular piece of kitsch. I expressed my opinions of it in one of my earliest Flickr uploads, from 2008.
But in my eagerness to shun the work, I had ignored the frieze at the base of the statue. In this segment, Paul Day pays tribute to the workers who built the Channel Tunnel that links St. Pancras International with Continental Europe, as well as those who toiled in transforming St. Pancras into today’s modern station. This was Britain’s largest civil engineering project, that lasted from 2004 to 2007.
Giving the St. Pancras ‘Lovers’ Statue’ a second look
My opinion of Paul Day’s giant Meeting Place statue at St. Pancras International remains unchanged: I regard the embracing lovers as a singular piece of kitsch. I expressed my opinions of it in one of my earliest Flickr uploads, from 2008.
But in my eagerness to shun the work, I had ignored the frieze at the base of the statue. In this segment, Paul Day pays tribute to the workers who built the Channel Tunnel that links St. Pancras International with Continental Europe, as well as those who toiled in transforming St. Pancras into today’s modern station. This was Britain’s largest civil engineering project, that lasted from 2004 to 2007.