Terminal and Untitled

I keep finding myself back at the Whitworth Art Gallery and Park for a number of reasons; I walk past it on my way back to the office after dropping off donations at the food bank, there's so much more to see than I ever realised and I'm being made redundant in September so I may as well blip it to within an inch of its life before I leave!

These two sculptures have stood in front of the Gallery for as long as I can remember and I've always just assumed they were Chinese symbols.  

Why have I never googled it before?  Why has Blip made me question what I've always seen, but then encouraged me to delve deeper?  I've always wondered why they were there but I'm intrigued why I've never previously taken 5 minutes to look it up.  Thank you Blip!

The Whitworth tells me that "the bold, red-painted steel forms are
Bernard Schottlander’s Terminal and Untitled.  Sitting to one side of the Edwardian portico, they mark the Whitworth’s original entrance and are a reminder of how things - and people - can change: the artist began his working life as a welder before turning to art, while the Whitworth, of course, is no longer the red brick institution of old."

So now I know!

Quote for today:
When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell