Victoria Tower Gardens ellies

On Friday morning on my way to a team meeting, I passed these wet and bedraggled ellies near Westminster.  I was very surprised to learn that this park was called Victoria Tower Gardens - I had no idea!  It's much more Westminster than Victoria in my mind.  I am certainly learning much more about London in this exploration and elephant hunt. 

This is #250 Haecceity.  I didn't even know this was a real word - but here's the definition, according to Wikipedia ...

Haecceity (from the Latin haecceitas, which translates as "thisness") is a term from medieval philosophy first coined by Duns Scotus which denotes the discrete qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing. Haecceity is a person or object's "thisness".  So culturally enlightening, as well as visually satisfying! 

The decoration is a pastiche of aerial photographs of people.  You can also see the raindrops - it was raining at the time. 

Here is #192 - bird 2.  The paint is quite thick on this ellie - you can really see the layers.  This elephant was created by Patricia Shrigley.  Artist's Inspiration: "London crows, These are my sanity in concrete landscapes."

Last one in this group is #171 - Jarlo.  Lovely and bright on a horribly dull morning. 

After work, I caught the tube to the city, and walked around in the early evening and also got lost quite a bit!  I saw some very pretty ellies, so more to come soon .....