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Re: what's this on Grainger Street?

Von: ken (kenneth2002grant@hotmail.com) [Profil]
Datum: 18.01.2008 13:08
Message-ID: <6d51e7b7-a632-4dcc-b95a-4826f1490811@l32g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
Newsgroup: uk.local.geordie
On 17 Jan, 13:14, Chris Savage <spam.goes.h...@devnull.savvo.co.uk>
wrote:
> On 2008-01-17, ken <kenneth2002gr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The last time I visited Newcastle, I saw a strange piece of 'civic
> > art' in Grainger Street - I seem to remember it was about a block up
> > from St John The Baptist's Church, and on the same side of the street
> > as the church.
>
> > [...]
>
> > Any ideas what it's about?
>
> It's called "How Long?" and is by Rupert Clamp. Been there for five
> years now...
>
> <http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/pubartgraingertown#howlong>
>
> --
> Chris Savage                   Kiss me. Or would you rather live in a
> Gateshead, UK                  land where the soap won't lather?
>                                        - Billy Bragg



Thanks for that link, Chris. I'll just paste the description from it
here:

"The work is formed by the sentence "FROM HERE IT IS NINE THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN CENTIMETRES (How are you feeling?) TO HERE"

Carved directly into the granite kerb as it turns around the corner.
The beginning is in Westgate Road. To read it the viewer has to follow
the sentence around the corner into Grainger Street. Rupert Clamp is
based in Newcastle."

Of course, the next question is: what the hell does it mean? (apart
from being a lot of pretentious tosh, that is).
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