Northern Adventures (1992)
Northern Adventures
Northern Adventures
Northern Adventures
Northern Adventures
600 x 100 x 60 cm
St Pancras Station dates from 1867. At the moment it is mostly used for transportation of mail. In the course of time the building has become severely disfigured by fouling pigeons. The necessary restoration of the Victorian fa?ade of the station building, carried out in 1992, formed the occasion of an art project.
A shiny red dove-cot in the colour 'Royal Mail Red' is placed over the entrance of the small building for mail vans, located in front of the station. The carrier-pigeons, now untamed, will regain their symbolic role in the company.
(The management determined that the dove-cot should be shut up to ward off possible IRA terrorists placing bombs).