Posted on 07/18/2019 5:41:57 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
The bronze likeness of Obama is the latest addition to Rapid City’s City of Presidents project. The idea is to honor American presidents with life-size bronzes scattered throughout the downtown. Each statue is privately funded and placement follows a preset pattern to make sure there is no favoritism or political bias in the process.
Since the project began in 2000, every president besides Obama have been immortalized on the streets of Rapid City from notables like Thomas Jefferson to obscure chief executives like Rutherford B. Hayes.
Tanya Manus at the Rapid City Journal reports that the 44th president's sculpture was created by local musician, writer and artist James Van Nuys, who has previously sculpted Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce for the project (each can be located via the City of Presidents interactive walking tour). But the Obama statue, he says, was his biggest challenging to date.
The statue was scheduled to take about nine months, but instead it took him two years to complete. One reason, Dallerie Davis, co-founder of the project, tells KOTA was that they ultimately decided to alter their original design to make the Obama statue more evocative. “We found out that a standing guy who is waving is rather boring and the one thing we don't want to do is have a boring statue on the street, particularly someone like President Obama. He deserves a statue that isn't boring,” Davis says.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
A turd on a broken brothel toilet seat, aka an upper decker?
Well this time the bronze matches better :)
A beautiful toilet for Pigeons
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Did that come from Mos Eisley?
one can only hope they have watery diarrhea.
“I swear, Officer, I thought I was setting off some Fireworks to mark the new bronze Obama statue. You know...to Celebrate!
I figured ‘Tannerite’ was a brand name of flares made in China. So, it’s not?”
The statue is carved out of coprolite.
The Kenyan from Indonesia was never eligible to be President.
He is NOT a natural born citizen.
El Mulatto Pieta. Original version.
Then not so "scattered" is it?
He’s holding hands with a young Malaria...
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Beware when it begins to speak and demand to be worshiped.
Just kidding.
Mostly.
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