Bill Woodrow

Regardless of History, 2000 A human head crushed between a book and the roots of a tree, cast in bronze so it sat in the same dark register as the square's official statues. Where Wallinger worked through scale, Woodrow worked through allegory: knowledge and nature grinding down the individual, under a column raised to one man's fame. It is the least remembered of the early three, partly because it was the most conventional in form, but it read clearly from the ground and asked the right question of a square full of monuments.