Video: Beasts on the London Underground. Creative art project by Paul Middlewick
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The poem "I once walked around London, And suddenly I met an elephant on Berkeley Street. And he says modestly …" I remember from childhood. But only recently I happened to find out that there are indeed elephants in the London Underground. And not only elephants, but also flamingos, whales, bats, bears, monkeys, beavers and, of course, cats and dogs too. Where did this whole zoo come from, you ask? Contact a British artist better with this question. Paul Middlewick, the author of a funny art project "Animals in the subway" (Animals on the underground). The author says that more than 20 years ago, when the project was not even in the project (sorry for the pun), he was returning from work late in the evening in a crowded subway, he was literally pressed against the wall on which one of the subway maps hung, and suddenly he saw at the intersection of the lines … of an elephant! At first, he decided that this vision had happened from fatigue, but the next time he saw a dog on the diagram in another metro, he realized that it was no accident. This is how the artist got an amusing hobby: to look out for a variety of birds and animals in the subway schemes.
For more than 20 years of work on "Animals on the underground" in the collection of Paul Middlewick, a whole zoo has gathered, consisting of several dozen inhabitants of forests, fields, deserts, savannas and the depths of the sea. In the future, when the British metro schemes are over, the author plans to switch to foreign ones, and only one of him knows what kind of living creatures he will find among the lines and stations …
By the way, there is a store on the site dedicated to the Animals on the underground project where you can order a T-shirt with your favorite metro print. Or find your "own" animal on one of the schemes and order a T-shirt with an author's print.
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