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The Iron Man- What happened to it?

Stokkie said:
Like many working class boys I learned how to weld or braze better than this at school and we would have avoided the rust by an oil quench or regular black leading. But it was made at Bradley and Fosters Castings Willenhall, so the appearance must have been deliberate.
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It was controversial initially, with early accusations of rusting being explained as deliberate by Gormley when he stated that the type of iron used encourages surface oxidation to protect the underlying metal
 
pjmburns said:
It was controversial initially, with early accusations of rusting being explained as deliberate by Gormley when he stated that the type of iron used encourages surface oxidation to protect the underlying metal
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Yes, Janice, I read that. Of course, the meaning of the rusty leaning Iron:Man is up to the audience. Does it suggest that metal working was in the past for Birmingham and we are left with post-industrial remains? It might, personally I'm the first male on my father's side not to be a metal worker for five generations. I know that precision engineering isn't dead in the Midlands. I can cope with the rust, but why does he have to lean? (Rhetorical question) Derek
 
Depends whether it is to the left or the right, and of course that depends on which side you look at him
 
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