Look Yonder

 Yo sandstone fox what are you looking at yonder? 

Nope, I can't see it, not a yap, I'm off 

The sandstone fox has stood near Bogle Crag since 1991 and is the work of Gordon Young, a local artist who specialises in public art and  has a fondness for typographic installations. The cursing stone in his home town of Carlisle caused some controversy for he made an ancient curse (of 1525) manifest in the shape of a granite boulder. Floods and foot and mouth disease coincided in the aftermath of its  installation, yikes. 

Happily his latest project in the seaside town of Blackpool is on a lighter note.  The Comedy Carpet is a 2,220m² granite pavement of jokes , songs and catchphrases of comedians and writers who have appeared on the town's stages over the decades. Located on near Blackpool Tower it looks like this

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