Some other installations

There are many other installations next to roads.

The French motorway from Calais to Boulogne sur Mer has a pair of sculptures, one at each end, on each bridge over the road.

Antony Gormley's 'Angel of the North' is sited so as to be visible from the road. See

Angel of the North

The Swedish installation artist Akay Barsky produced a work similar to the prototype that I intend to install. He found an isolated island of land, cut off by motorways from the rest of the surrounding land. Upon this island, he placed sculptures and cut-outs of different animals.
See 'The Island' here.

Akay Zoo

And in the face of the onslaught of traffic and concrete, perhaps one might borrow from the 'Flat Daddy" and "Flat Mommy" movement in the USA, appropriately substituting the word 'animal' in this piece from the Boston Globe of 30th August 2006.


While most families stay in touch with their guardsmen by e-mail, snapshots, and videophone, the cutouts are unusual. `It's a novel approach," said John Goheen, spokesman for the National Guard Association of the United States, a Washington-based lobbying group. ``It's to remind the kids that this guy and this woman is still part of your life, that this is what they look like, and this is how big they are."

click here for Boston Globe 30 Aug 2006 Flat Daddy