Lumpen Zombie Decepticon Public Art

[elfs]

Giant Zombies!

My city has been undergoing a renaissance of sorts, rebuilding its public square and replacing its late 60's-era rambler City Hall with a modern, four-storey construction of glass with a back that faces the city's main retail drag, curving along the curb, and a front that faces the city's largest open parking lot. (The satellite view is apparently after the tear-down, but before reconstruction began.) Being a modern, left-coast city, it commissioned some public art to decorate their front entrance.

This monstrosity is what they got. Called "mother and child," this 10-meter tall pair of lumpen zombie Decepticons striding across the parking lot is just the sort of thing to discourage any parent from taking young children to the city hall. The "mother" statue is especially disturbing, with her Barbie proportions, rasta-like dreads and menacing claws.

The city has recently announced that the statue is "temporary." Huh. I wonder why they might want to put a deadline on just how long this eyesore has to stay in sight.

Comments

[boiwondering.livejournal.com]

It probably says something revealing and, I'm sure, not terribly flattering about me that I actually really like that statue, at least as shown in your photo. Then again, I moved to Seattle from a city where their idea of public art included a statue of a cowboy roping a gigantic bull with glowing red eyes (complete with lightbulbs) and a full set of udders barely hiding its penis.

Yeah, my tastes are probably skewed.