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Cultural notes

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

Hobart’s historical heretics violated

‘Vitalist, unscrupulously optimistic cultures, cruel, bigoted and superstitious, all detest the grace-saving presence of the statue in their midst.’ – Alexander Stoddart, the Queen’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland

A statue is an embassy of the dead among the living; a conduit for communion between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.

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