I see this sculpture as propaganda

Friday, 28th January 2022

Philip Jackson with Wireless Operator

Philip Jackson with Wireless Operator, one of the air crew to feature in his 2012 Bomber Command Memorial in The Green Park

• YOU referred to sculptor Philip Jackson, and his huge Green Park Bomber Command Memorial, (Monumental, Review, January 14).

This seems to invoke Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais in its composition.

But Rodin’s burghers involved the suffering of a town under siege from the cruel English invaders.

Jackson’s massive figures conversely celebrate the murderous deeds of the controversial Sir Arthur Harris.

Harris, the chief of Bomber Command, endorsed the policy of indiscriminate night area bombing of entire German cities.

Women and children in working class areas were incinerated. And up to half a million civilians were killed by the RAF.

As far as I am concerned, what Philip Jackson has done is propaganda, not art. His pompous statues ooze blood.

ZEKRIA IBRAHIMI
Mackenzie Close, W12

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