a life half submerged
A few years ago we made our first trip to Crosby to see Antony Gormley's fantastic installation 'Another Place'.
If you've never been or haven't heard about it, it's basically 100 cast iron statues similar to the one on the left, all taken from the artist's own body, and sunk into the beach at Crosby overlooking the Mersey estuary and Irish Sea. They stretch for a good few miles and offer some brilliant opportunities for some great photos.
We both love 'big art' and dramatic installations and to be honest this really ticks all the boxes for us.
Quite a few are way up the beach away from the shoreline towards the dunes but others are positioned further out and the times we've been we've often wondered what they look like with the tide in.
During our last visit we found out as we pulled up to the car park to be met by a reasonably high spring tide and many of the statues fully or partially submerged.
We had gone for another reason - the rubble beach (read more about that here) but we just couldnt resist getting some shots of these other worldly figures, Canute like in the Mersey - undaunted, unbowed and showing signs of a life half submerged.
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