If we forget about the politics for a moment (I know, it's hard - bear with me for this single toot), and focus on aesthetics, did ChatGPT design this? Are there no unionist/loyalist sculptors who could make more of this, so that those who delight in the partition of Ireland could get something out of looking at this?
The North is held up by a small pedestal and also a big pedestal. Is this a metaphor?
Compare this to a monument to mark, eh.... 40 years of Shannon Development, in Shannon, Co Clare: http://joeneesonsculpture.ie/projects/flight/
@nichorra That's lovely; it reminds me of the story of the Children of Lir!
It actually is. I thought this piece was a good example of what an artist can interpolate from a pretty meh commemoration. The key difference between the two is whoever commissioned it worked with an artist..
If something is important to you, especially a memorial that you want to celebrate, would you not jazz it up 
@nichorra I think you're right: there's absolutely nothing symbolic in the one they've ended up with. They very clearly haven't trusted an artist, or abstraction or feeling in general. What they've ended up with more resembles a memorial to the geopolitical concept of NI than anything else, which may prove apt, with the way the tide is turning.
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Co. Monaghan is holding the whole thing up!
@nichorra there's a visible lack of flegs.
You think it would improve with added fleg?
@nichorra i think it would be… more in line with the aesthetics i remember from visits to belfast. and perhaps a tasteful bowler hat on top of the whole thing…