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The current issue some interesting technical and non technical articles on the use of stainless steel in the food industry with speical reference to hygiene.

The pictures here show the Britten Scallop positioned on the beach between Aldburgh and Thorpness.. But why do the vertical pices seem dirtly and not the horizontal?

The phrase "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" (from Peter Grimes) is pierced through the steel, to be read against the sky. Images of wings rising in flight, swimming fish and the ripple of waves are all suggested by the work, whose scallop forms also recall ancient symbols of pilgrimage, Venus and the sea.

Indeed, Maggi Hambling thinks of Scallop as a conversation with the sea. "An important part of my concept is that at the centre of the sculpture, where the sound of the waves and the winds are focused, a visitor may sit and contemplate the mysterious power of the sea," she says.

Scallop was given to Suffolk Coastal by the artist and by the Adnams Charity, which co-ordinated the raising of funds from numerous individual donors and grant-making trusts - including the Foundation for Sport & the Arts, the Britten-Pears Foundation, the Monument Trust and the Scarfe Charitable Trust.