Hobart’s historical heretics violated
‘Vitalist, unscrupulously optimistic cultures, cruel, bigoted and superstitious, all detest the grace-saving presence of the statue in their midst.’ – Alexander Stoddart, the Queen’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland
A statue is an embassy of the dead among the living; a conduit for communion between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.
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