Imagine something horrific happening during your life, something you’ll never forget, something that will haunt you forever. Then imagine someone making a sculpture, graphically depicting scenes from that very event that left you mentally scarred and trying to pass off the said sculpture as a memorial.
This is how many of the survivors of the Hillsborough disaster feel about the new Hillsborough memorial sculpture, created by artist Tony Evans. The statue depicts people being crushed against the Leppings Lane fence, with one person at the top reaching his hand down to help, it may be try to portray the way Liverpool fans helped eachother, but it’s downright disgusting.
Many survivors and families of those who died that day have never fully got over what happened on April 15th, they’ve never had a day when they haven’t thought about it, or had nightmares about it. So, who in their right mind would create a ‘memorial’ that graphically depicts the events of the said day, a 15ft monstrosity that brings all those emotions flooding back? Well. clearly an artist trying to make name for himself with something controversial, but this isn’t controversial, it’s just plain sick.
M. Owen
michael@empireofthekop.com
Well at least the artist’s willing to listen to people’s opinions so let’s hope he’ll use them to make something less sickening
I have a feeling it will get covered by LFC scarves anyways.
I have a feeling it won’t get built, thankfully.
I am 13 and i was looking in the daily mirror and when i saw it i was horrified as i am too a liverpool fan and my father had tickets to that one match but luckily over slept that day and missed the coach but i think it is a disgusting piece and should be torn down and burned instead of showing half dead people they should make somthing that people will be honered to cover in liverpool hats scarves and shirts something that liverpool will be proud to see instead of something that disgusts people and makes them feel uterlly sick
michael owen doesnt have a clue what hes talking about pipe down
It’s not disgusting, it’s an artistic interpretation of a horrific event. Which Tony Evans was commisioned to produce. It’s brave and YES, it IS controversial. Art often is. You look at it and it reminds you of the horror of the day and that is bound to be painful, but we don’t want people to forget any of that. I can appreciate that some would find it difficult to look at and I guess that means it does it’s job.
I don’t expect the model will be made in to a full size version, but fair play to the sculptor, it represents a horror that we never want to be forgotten.
The two posters above clearly were not in anyway affect by the disaster.
Most survivors and families of victims have come out and shown their disgust at it. There’s not statue of a plane crashing into a tower at Ground Zero and for the same reason this should be nowhere near anything to do with the disaster.
It’s something which will just bring back bad memories, not help people remember.
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