Plinth as altar for art object as sacrificial offering to be carved up by viewers

Plinth as dais for objects to be approached and worshipped in awe and wonder

Plinth as symbol of the act of generosity and emergence

Plinth for status, statue, standing

Plinth as soap box

Plinth as pulpit

Plinth to personify, lend identity, anthropomorphise

Plinth to raise object to convenient height to encourage interaction and motion

Plinth as obstacle

Plinth to involve, include

Plinth to ‘denigrate, ridicule, exclude’ (A. Rogers)

Plinth absented to involve, include (Gormsley)

Plinth as instrument to transform, elevate object into art

Plinth as art object (Brancusi’s Endless Column umbilically supporting sky from earth or earth from sky)

Plinth as masculine, penetrative symbol of power and control

Plinth as tool for negotiation

Plinth holding up object

Plinth transferring load to ground

Plinth as tabula rasa (4th Plinth Project co-opted as advertising platform for London)

Plinth left empty by torn down statues, awaiting the next tyrant, symbol of the repeated failure of utopian revolution

Plinth as stage

Plinth as sculpture

Plinth as subject of research