Oh well, it seems I am not destined to get a place on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgare square – the September selections have been made and I diodn’t get my calling-up papers. Although democratic and fair, it’s a shame that my application (in the first minute of the application process being open) didn’t succeed, but then that’s the point of the public nature of the art in Antony Gormley’s democratisation of a space originally reserved for heroes.