Ian Wolter's "Lest We Forget Those Who Denied"
As a tribute to six of the UK's leading climate change deniers, Anglia Ruskin University student Ian Wolter
created a masterpiece. This 'oil painting'/ sculpture won the school's annual Sustainability Art Prize and is now officially our new favorite work of art.
Elegant in its simplicity, the work is a seven-foot tall black faux-stone slab, with an inscription of the six deniers' names beneath the words, "Lest We Forget Those Who Denied."
Flowing over the words is a continuous stream of motor oil.
Among those immortalized are "journalists" Melanie Phillips, James Delingpole and Chirstopher Booker and politicians Nigel Lawson, Christopher Monckton and Owen Paterson. Delingpole, being entirely devoid of any normal sense of shame, glows over having "been celebrated and immortalised" by the installation.
We would love to see an American version, but recognize that between the GOP, WSJ and Fox News we would need a much bigger sculpture.
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