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Originally Posted by shpeil
Is that one of the series of statues in the Water of Leith? I always get a bit of a fright when walking across the Dean Bridge, and having a peer over the parapet (as you do) then seeing this shadowing figure out of my peripheral vision...
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Aye, as Rob says, Antony Gormley strikes again. They are, by all accounts iron casts of him. Not sure why he felt the need to put milk bottle tops over his raspberry ripples while they made the cast??? That particular one is standing in the middle of the river at Warriston. There are 6 in total - first is at the art gallery, 4 in the river, and the last on the end of the old pier in Leith harbour. Go figure
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He reckons they will take about a thousand years to gradually rust away. Aye, right!