Like most art galleries, museums, and historic sites in the UK, Glasgow’s Gallery Of Modern Art, GOMA, is free. When you walk through the front door to use the gallery’s washroom, you pass a statue of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, on horseback and wearing a traffic cone on his head. When the Italian artist, Carlo Marochetti, completed the sculpture in 1844, it didn’t include a traffic cone. Someone added that later and it has become an essential feature. Inspired by the quality of whimsy that GOMA fosters, I found art in the plastic chairs and folded tables on the sidewalk outside. A man in a hoodie and smoking a cigarette completed the image.
