An artist has made 650 mud figures by the Thames to highlight social injustice

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LONDON — A woman has been sitting on the shore of the Thames sculpting small figurines out of mud.

Her name is Liz Crow, and she's an artist and activist with disabilities. She's been crafting 650 of the tiny people at low tide for the last ten days, building a small mud army that forms the central part of an art project entitled Figures .

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Her somewhat eccentric industriousness aims to highlight the human cost of austerity ahead of the forthcoming general election, with each of the figures representing the UK's 650 constituencies and the range of effects austerity has on its inhabitants. Read more...

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