Mr Sandman

I took another little trip into the city tonight as it looked as though Dublin was going to get a decent sunset. The weather has been lovely this week and I hoped to get some nice dusk shots.

I walked along the Liffey towards Georges Dock and the CHQ. I’m so glad I went because what I saw next was amazing.

As part of the ’One City, One Book’ Festival the Dublin Docklands authority and Dublin City Council asked Duthain Dealbh to create sand sculptures to depict scenes from Jonathan Swifts ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

The sculptures had been there for 9 days and I had arrived just as they were just about to dismantle the last one (hit it with a hammer I presume). They held off and let me and a few other people take some last minute photographs.

This sculpture below was around 4 meters tall and shows Gulliver being told of the terms of his freedom by the Lilliputains.

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As for the rest of the evening shots the sunset never really came. A lot of cloud gathered and the sun never really shone much brighter than in the shots viewable in the slideshow. There’ll be other nights…

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