David Whetstone's published an article on his meeting with Fiona Banner in today's Journal when she described her thoughts behind the major public art project Tornado.

"I was thinking of what was the most simple form of communication and this idea of a bell as an instrument that doesn’t require a knowledge of music in order to make it work ... and also the shape of it. As an instrument it does look a bit like an ear. Most of my work is about language and communication but this particular bell has a very unusual DNA. It comes from an object which represents the opposite of language, a breakdown of communication.”

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