I stood there today, with a couple that correspond with death. It's an odd topic for a statue. Forty years ago....they would have gone and done traditional statues. Today? The modern touch is to take risks.
There's at least eight different characters on the first picture. All corresponding with death in some manner.
It's hard to say if there is a bid put up for a statue, or the city council has some inside artist with special favors. The size of the statue relating to a cost? Generally, yes. This guy probably spent at least two or three years working on this piece. This one to the right? It's supposed to represent a 'death boat' where some folks are trying to get away from death within the boat. Yeah, the gal is half-naked, and there is a raven perced somewhere on the boat with some dog yelping. No....no cat, or cowboy armed with a pistol.
I guess I'm lucky not to be an artist. I just wouldn't have this kind of imagination.
The bottom picture? Some chunky gal, eating a graham cracker, with a Timex watch on. Yeah, she is sitting on a dragon. As I walked up to it.....some six-year-old kid was standing there and looking at the gal. I guess he was contemplating the graham cracker, and it's impact upon the gal. Maybe. I guess it's best not to think too deeply on things like this.
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