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We are looking down on one of the Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, created by one of Britain's leading contemporary sculptors, Rachel Whiteread.

She was awarded the Turner Prize in 1993 for the controversial House and, more recently completed the Holocaust memorial in Vienna and the piece, Monument - which was displayed on Trafalgar Square’s empty plinth.

In the Turbine Hall, she created a labyrinth-like structure, entitled EMBANKMENT, made from 14,000 casts of the inside of different boxes, stacked to occupy the space.

"The form of a cardboard box has been chosen because of its associations with the storage of intimate personal items and to invoke the sense of mystery surrounding ideas of what a sealed box might contain."

I was half impressed with the work but really stunned by the way that as you left the Tate Modern the white plastic clad river facing facade of St Paul's Cathedral (undergoing renovation) echoed Whiteread's boxes - intended- unintended - nothing was ever said as far as I know by the artist.......I'm afraid I was much more impressed by the white clad St Pauls.....but then without Whiteread's sculpture would I have ever appreciated it so much, or invested it with such meaning......artists are here amongst us to get us to look and THINK again..........!!!!

I liked this image for the multiple levels and layers and the small conundrum of the reflections - and I post it here as a consequence of and as a tribute to my appreciation of the work of Sasa! (Designsoul)