Nick Smyth - Iron Sculptures

Ferric Fantasia : Jerusalem 1187

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Price: £125

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About this piece

A short length of chain attached to a swivel piece, to which are joined two further chains, solidified round a circular former, become the corpse of a warrior, still wearing his chain (mail) helmet.

A horse shoe is now his head and the broken bucket handle his shattered halo.

Two pieces of round bar are his arms, frozen in death, the reason for which is clearly the huge spear - part of an old gate hinge - embedded in his pelvis

Who else could he be but a crusader, who met his end at the hands of Saladin in the battle for Jerusalem in 1187?

Long Take-Off and Landing sculpture