-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 103
Most Thursdays, I publish a post containing photos taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own images with an up or down perspective.
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There’s a new piece of art hanging up high in St Pancras Station. It is the latest piece in the Terrace Wires series, this time presented in collaboration with the Royal Academy. One More Time is an almost replica of the familiar white and gold clock that hangs in the station, facing the Eurostar platforms. The art clock is black and silver, resembling a negative of the original, and hangs 16 metres in front of the real thing. As you move around the station, the relative positions of the two time pieces appear to change so
that the replica clock eventually eclipses its inspiration.
This latest work is by British artist Cornelia Parker in collaboration with Dent, the manufacturers of both the real St Pancras clock and of “Big Ben”.
The artist said of the work, “The clock is the most conscious focus of a railway station, a dominant force. Everyone is watching the clock, checking if they are late. The piece will introduce the idea of a parallel frame of reference, that of a slower astronomical time.”
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The Challenge
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Welcome to week 103 (and apologies for the slightly erratic appearance of the challenge recently)! As always, a huge thank you to all who participated last time.
All are welcome to join this challenge; do please share your up or down perspective with us. Simply create your own post as normal, create a link to this challenge and click above to enter your link and view other entries. If you have any difficulties with the linky, please just leave your link in a comment below and I will upload your thumbnail.
Finally, please don’t forget to go and visit the other challengers and pass on your views and encouragement.
To find out more about how to enter, click here. The linky list normally opens on Thursday at 00:01 GMT (or a bit before) and remains open for one week.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 9 September 2015
Travel with Intent 
Lovely pictures, and I’ll bet it’s fascinating to walk around watching the illusion.
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a simple but clever idea the best view would be from the Eurostar platforms but I haven’t had cause to be up there recently.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Very interesting! It inspired me of my post because it also got two clocks.
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How unusual – two on one tower!
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Very unique and interesting.
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