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Putting in very public places and that just sit there forever and people take a very strong view, both for and against. and for an artist, i wonder what it's like when, for example, the good old scallop shell has a petition against it in the community of aldeburgh and hundreds of people are saying, "get rid of it." i mean, as an artist, what does that feel like? well... you know, you make a thing on your own in the studio and it goes out into the world and then it's up to the world how the world responds, you know? but does it make you angry when these folks... ? well, i was rather... i though...

Commissioned, yes, but the... ..but scallop on aldeburgh beach... and just for people who don't know, that's this extraordinary... i think it's four tonnes of steel, a sort of elaborate scallop shell shape, which is right on the shingle beach at aldeburgh. yes. it's a shattered scallop, you know, because i think benjamin britten took classical music and wrung it by the neck and reinvented it and so it's the shattering scallop shell. but a friend of mine had come to tea and said, "oh, i thought i was going to be a statue "of benjamin britten in aldeburgh, maggi, "and i thought you were going to...

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