Street art · London
Photo: AnemoneProjectors - Peter O'Connor (talk; Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0
the Seafarers Memorial
By Michael Sandle
A ship's bow bursts through the pavement like a torpedoed wreck frozen mid-sink, a lone seafarer standing watch atop it — half nautical monument, half surrealist illusion, honoring merchant sailors lost at sea.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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