Saturday 9 May 2009

A rather ammusing case of 'plop art'

Ive been meaning to write this for a while but i kept being distracted by other more important things with my practice but i noticed that recently The Council have decided to make my area where i live a bit more erm how should i put this?.. Arty? They have put these two rediculously random sculptures at eather end of my street. One being this strange dragon fly looking piece sculpted out of metal plonked outside a block of flats and the other a piece which is to represent a conker. These two pieces have no relivance to the area they are placed in and to be honest i dont think they even really thaught about where they were placed. As of yet they dont have any graffiti on them but i just know there will be soon. As the council estate opposite where i live there are people there who would do that sortof thing. Especially as they were litrally just plonked there. Obviously they were just trying to use art as an excuse to try make the area to look nicer and to be honest i think they dont really enhance the area in the slightest. Its not that bad but now they have these pointless wierd sculptures just plonked there.. it just reeks of money rather than art.
I shall upload pics of these 'pieces' very soon.

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