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Would you want this sculpture in your neighbourhood? Public art piece draws criticism from some Vancouverites (Public Art)
CBC ^ | 06 21 2021 | Alex Migdal

Posted on 07/07/2021 6:51:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The sculpture is of a young, distraught boy standing atop a red tower with a melting shark in his arms, a visual warning of rising sea levels and the destruction they could wreak.

But for some residents on the southern edge of Vancouver's False Creek, the proposed 7.8-metre-tall sculpture, to be installed temporarily amid manicured lawns and waterfront residences, is a blemish.

"Do I think the art is suitable for this location? No," said Maggie Rayner, a resident of a neighbouring building, while strolling past the site Sunday afternoon.

"I don't think it's appropriate, the scale for the space."

Those comments have been echoed by a group of residents who have set up a sign in protest at the proposed site, a small elevated park space bordering the bike path near Stamps Landing.

The disapproval has led to an online petition with more than 1,000 signatures.

SNIP


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KEYWORDS: publicart; ugly
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To: Ann Archy
Ann -- Do you mean this pair at the Seattle Olympic Park? A naked man and boy holding their arms out to one another.


21 posted on 07/07/2021 8:02:07 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: yesthatjallen

Remember the new normal.
It’s okay to topple public art we don’t like.
If they can take down President Grant and Lincoln, and an elk, we can take down their garbage.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/iconic-portland-elk-statue-removed-from-downtown-after-fire-set-during-protest.html


22 posted on 07/07/2021 8:03:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: yesthatjallen
Art is about creating discussion, not esthetics and beauty. True art should make you feel uncomfortable and make you question the society you live in.

Art is to only make straight white Christian males uncomfortable.

Any art which makes blacks, Muslims, or gays uncomfortable will be destroyed (like the statues of dead white males were torn down across the country over the past year).

23 posted on 07/07/2021 8:08:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Ann Archy

Likely a statement about man supposedly ‘killing the oceans’ with pollution and climate ate change


24 posted on 07/07/2021 8:12:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Satan and those that consciously or subconsciously or unknowingly follow him making it known that they are morally corrupt and perverted

They are Demon Driven whether they realize it or not


25 posted on 07/07/2021 8:14:49 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Ann Archy

Seattle has a statue of Vladimir Lenin.


26 posted on 07/07/2021 8:30:44 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: yesthatjallen

The best I can say is that it is not as bad as it could have been.


27 posted on 07/07/2021 8:31:20 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: yesthatjallen

It is supposed to be a naked obamy?


28 posted on 07/07/2021 8:49:10 AM PDT by bgill
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To: seowulf

I know.


29 posted on 07/07/2021 8:59:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Bernard

He’s a homeless guy about to use the sidewalk to take care of business.


30 posted on 07/07/2021 11:28:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: Blurb2350
Do you mean this pair at the Seattle Olympic Park? A naked man and boy holding their arms out to one another.

Is that supposed to inspire baby daddies to take care of their spawn?

31 posted on 07/07/2021 11:31:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: yesthatjallen

If he’s trying to save the shark, he might put it back in the water.

Btw, that boy has some weird-ass legs. Artistic license or ineptitude?


32 posted on 07/07/2021 1:09:53 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Communists have long wanted to make art meaningless so people don’t believe in anything; are easier to take over.


33 posted on 07/07/2021 1:11:48 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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