Big
Brother is Watching You
A modern day Gargoyle
in Bath Stone
The first usage for gargoyles seems to have been
in the early 1200’s as channels to shed rainwater away from buildings and
their foundations. They were sometimes described as a warning to the populace
with the gargoyle metaphorically saying, ‘Hey you! Yes you! Watch your
step we’ve got our eye on you’ believing them to ward off unwanted
spirits. The Royal Academy of Engineering produced a report highlighting
the astonishing numbers of CCTV cameras in this country with one for every 14
people. I felt it would be interesting to create a modern day gargoyle
with a degree of humour and cynicism of a man clutching a camera peering at the
unsuspecting public from high up on a building surreptitiously taking away their
privacy
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