Wednesday 15 April 2009

”Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair…”

Spokeswoman for the 'Dream' project, Catherine Braithwaite said: "The decision to erect the sculpture was not taken lightly and consultation took over three years. The end result will be amazing."
It will indeed, Catherine.

People will marvel at how a council can flush away £2 million of council taxpayer’s money on a giant elongated head in the middle of a recession. And they will probably also marvel at the fact that the taxpayers of St Helens didn’t storm the ton hall, drag out the useless council ‘worker’ who approved this and nail his tattered remains to the piece of ‘art’ he is responsible for.

I can only wonder that the council didn’t decide to sum up its contempt for the people that pay its wages by commissioning a completely different body part instead…

8 comments:

Stan said...

What was the name of that island where the inhabitants erected large statues of heads just as their civilization was crumbling around them?

Oh yeah - Britain!

JuliaM said...

Lol! :)

Oldrightie said...

Would not a headless chicken have made a more appropriate statement of our time?

Edwin Greenwood said...

Couldn't they just have kept the slag heap?


slag heap n.phr. Spontaneous accumulation of collapsed, inebriated young women, commonly found outside clubs and bars in Northern towns shortly after chucking-out time.

Mark Wadsworth said...

St Helens? That's quite near Bolton, isn't it?

James Higham said...

People will marvel at how a council can flush away £2 million of council taxpayer’s money on a giant elongated head in the middle of a recession.

This is true. In the town nearest me, the same thing happened - total wastage at a time we can least afford it.

Dr Melvin T Gray said...

The Plensa work was commissioned before the recession and will look pretty impressive. I suppose it will not be to everyone's liking but too late to be sacrificed to philistinism

The Happy Rampager said...

I like the colour. Thrown paint will show up quite nicely on it.