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London's Drowning

Michael Pinsky's latest public artwork uses heavenly halos on monuments in London to indicate how deep underwater your dead ass will be in a 1000 years.
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Photograph of Paternoster Square by Julian Andrews.

If you’re wandering around London and you come across a blue halo attached to some well-known monument, giving off an ethereal glow, don’t be too alarmed. That strange halo you found is part of a new public artwork, Plunge, created by Michael Pinsk. Michael has attached lowlight LEDs to the Paternoster Square column near St Paul’s Cathedral, the Duke of York’s column by St James’ Park, and the Seven Dials Sundial Pillar near Covent Garden. Each ring has been placed 28m (91.9ft) in the air to show where rising sea levels could be in a 1000 years time, indicating how much of London might be submerged under a swollen Thames river.

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