Antony

Written as a response to seeing the artists sculptures 'speaking'  across the landscape and reading an enlightening review in a magazine

A man stood on a mountain side

Looked out at the world and said:

‘Look at me:

I am.

I stand on the arête and

Symbolise ‘it’

     A hole in the ether,

                        A presence in existence.

I am iron

     I am representation

     I am freedom from the stereotype.

Look at me

Standing bare

Clothed in cling-film

Plastered, enfolded, transformed....

I am.

     I exist.

           I communicate.

Do you hear me?

The waves lap at my feet

The snow drifts at my knees

And people stare at my stance

     My motionless

                        My lacking in breath-

Yet they buy the story

The philosophy

      The presence of my being.

I am the iron man

I am Antony Gormley.’

Aug 2011

http://www.antonygormley.com/