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A face emerges from the barn. What stories could it tell, what does it want to say? From a boat trip along the river Stour in Canterbury.

Called 'Bulkhead', this was created by Rick Kirby in 2003. It is outside the Marlowe theatre and was inspired by a line from Marlowe’s Faust about Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships.” It is made from scrap metal taken from ships along the Kent coast.