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…
What was the name of that island where the inhabitants erected large statues of heads just as their civilization was crumbling around them?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah - Britain!
Lol! :)
ReplyDeleteWould not a headless chicken have made a more appropriate statement of our time?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't they just have kept the slag heap?
ReplyDeleteslag heap n.phr. Spontaneous accumulation of collapsed, inebriated young women, commonly found outside clubs and bars in Northern towns shortly after chucking-out time.
St Helens? That's quite near Bolton, isn't it?
ReplyDeletePeople 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.
ReplyDeleteThis is true. In the town nearest me, the same thing happened - total wastage at a time we can least afford it.
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
ReplyDeleteI like the colour. Thrown paint will show up quite nicely on it.
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