Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A bronze statue (sculpted by Peter Corlett) of John Cain jr, a former premier of Victoria, Australia.
This is one of four life-size statues of premiers outside the Treasury building in Melbourne.
The other statues are of Rupert Hamer, Henry Bolte and Albert Dunstan.
Each statue was commissioned by eccentric premier Jeff Kennett as a collective monument to those who served more than 3,000 days (8 years and a few months) in office.
There have been 45 premiers in the last 150 years and only 4 (post World War II) met the 3000 days criteria.
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One Single Impression #135 ~ Monument
Prompt suggested by Ramesh Sood ~ A Little More Than Ordinary
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Public accolades
Monuments mean achievements
Public memories
Monumental casts
Character cross-roads in time
Tangible echoes
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ These statues of Henry Bolte and Albert Dunstan have been placed to appear chatting!
And is it my imagination, but Dunstan seems to have a remarkable resemblance to Sir Winston Churchill!
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Monument to 3000 Days
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19 comments:
This truly needs to be savoured.. we are going to have a feast for eyes.. such lovely monuments..
I love this kind of 'natural looking' statues! These are really, really cool!
Very interesting sculptures and homage there!Your pictures are magnificent, perfect artwork!
Happy Sunday
Léia
beautiful takes Gemma...:) I could only smile how each one treated the prompt excellently...:)A worthy prompt this is!
Though mine is quite different from the rest!
Amazing pictures of these statues. I love them
Greetings from Argentina
Elisa
Very interesting. Yes, outstanding service to society and public should be acknowledged.
WOW, I can' imagine Germany doing that for their chancellors.
And the statues are beautiful too.
Amazing :D
Wonderful...thanks for sharing!
It looks natural and interesting...thanks for the visit, see you again.
what wonderful statues such detail too, Judith
Very well done, I like the Bolte/Dunstan one with the green. Who could ever forget Henry's frown lines? Jeff Kennett eccentric? I've heard him called many things but never eccentric. I think he was the sort of Premier you either loved him or hated him - there were no in-betweens!☺
Have a good Sunday.
Public memories are short lived but great achievements are applauded. Such monuments echo...
Great work is always rewarded and a monument becomes a reminder for generations.
Seems indeed as if time was "better" when people did wear a hat. An interesting and great idea for this prompt indeed.
Please have a good new week.
daily athens
Excellent - nice tribute paid to these men and it does appear the two are chatting. Wouldn't it be interesting to know what they could be saying?
what an interesting, enjoyable response to the prompt!
peace,
JP/deb
wonderful tribute, 3000 days is no easy feat!
Those statues looks different..... may be because it's silver.
Nice one gemma
an interesting tribute 3000 dayz... and enjoy the character caught in their expression...
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