According to the background piece I linked to: Gormley states that he wanted to make a work about the human collective future and responsibility for it. His artwork aimed to look back on its makers and the viewers as if they are all responsible for the world. Which, umm... It's clearly quite intentional that there is no path, you can only look at them from outside - the advance information is explicit about this, so I guess they get asked a lot. I don't know whether I like them or not. Interesting, but compared to your drowned palace ...
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Date: 2021-08-05 10:41 am (UTC)Gormley states that he wanted to make a work about the human collective future and responsibility for it. His artwork aimed to look back on its makers and the viewers as if they are all responsible for the world.
Which, umm...
It's clearly quite intentional that there is no path, you can only look at them from outside - the advance information is explicit about this, so I guess they get asked a lot.
I don't know whether I like them or not. Interesting, but compared to your drowned palace ...