{"id":761794,"date":"2026-09-06T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761794\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:52:11","slug":"this-is-why-antelope-park-has-a-strange-six-metre-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761794\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why Antelope Park has a strange six-metre sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Called &#8216;We Come in Peace&#8217;, the six-metre-high artwork was commissioned in 2009 by Rokeby Southern for the mixed-use development at Antelope Park in Thornhill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Made from glass-reinforced plastic and steel, the sculpture features an illuminated LED &#8216;eye&#8217; at its centre and was designed to be visible from the nearby trunk road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Artistically, it draws inspiration from science fiction and the post-war British Geometry of Fear movement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The artist, Dorset-based David Worthington, described it as being &#8220;as if out of War of the Worlds&#8221; &#8211; a sculpture that had landed in the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In recent weeks, a number of Southampton residents have taken to social media to ask what the sculpture is supposed to represent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The sculpture was also designed to engage young people from the nearby estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Called &#8216;We Come in Peace&#8217;, the six-metre-high artwork was commissioned in 2009 by Rokeby Southern for the mixed-use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}