Big Fish

If you're visiting the Lagan Lookout, or admiring the Customs House, you'll notice this big fish, commissioned to crown the face lift of the Belfast docks. It's by John Kindness, and the most interesting things about this fish are its beautiful blue scales. Take a closer look: every scale is a tile, and every tile tells a story about the city going back hundreds of years. What looks from a distance to be a simple sculpture becomes intricate and puzzling. Questions proliferate as the onlooker is drawn from tile to tile, from sailing ship to cartoon to portrait, and the sculpture (and the city) suddenly become more diverse and more surprising than before. Clambered on by children, admired by everyone who comes close enough to see its story, the Big Fish has already become Belfast's best-loved sculpture.

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