Street art · London
Photo: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Helmsman
By Andre Wallace
Who's steering this ghost ship? "The Helmsman" stands watch atop an abstracted bronze hull on the Thames path, half figurative sailor, half modernist boat wreck — a riverside nod to London's shipbuilding past.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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