Citizens' War Memorial

It's quite the memorial tbf. The movie Metropolis comes to mind, or even the book Atlas Shrugged (a nasty shitty book). It also has some big Marvel Universe Thor Valhalla vibes.

The figures on the 1937 Citizens' War Memorial represent, Youth, Justice, Peace, Sacrifice, and Valour. Sure, why not. The woman with her breasts out (WTF? oh, it's an angel, of course it is) bending the sword isn't named, but I like to think of her as Marlene.

The figures, based on the sculptor’s family, staff and friends, had intensely individual faces ..

It was created by the monumental sculptor, well a monumental something, William Trethewey (1892 – 1956), who represents in this work everything I shudder about when it comes to the British Empire and those that colonised Aotearoa New Zealand.

I took photos from all angles coz it deserves it out of sheer amazement.