SotA Anthology 2015-16 | Page 40

SotA Anthology 2015-16 beach and those huge pipes, and the observation tower for the docks itself, the great piles of scrap metal that seemed to be regularly collected by ships” (Gormley, 2015). My responses to the work conflicted with each other: as I stood beside the sculptures I could still find the landscape pertaining to some romantic sublime, even though it would have been a much diluted sensation to that which would have gripped people hundreds of years ago. Bernstein argues tha