Found Dreaming

Words fail me No mater what I make, and whether I think there is nothing wrong with the item, a disgruntle customer can ruin your business, and this statue looks absolutely nothing like Lucille Ball

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Well Mike, that looks like an extremely poor attempt at Bart Cummings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( our American friends won't have a clue who I'm referring to ) Cheers Trev.

That's the ugliest statue I've seen, let alone who it's supposed to be. Someone said the wife of the "Creature from the black lagoon". I can't believe it's been there since 2009. Didn't anyone look at the work in progress?

I recently posted a piece in a sculpture forum I frequent in answer to a guy who wanted to know the secret to selling large public sculpture. What I told him was that basically there are two kinds of outdoor public sculpture—government/civic work, and big office buildings. As in most all government work, there is almost no concern for quality. It's mostly politics. Does the person in charge have a brother in law who is a sculptor? Would the theme of the piece help him to get re-elected? (Women, Indians, and Blacks are a good bet for this right now.) I could go on, but you get the picture. As Ringo Starr once famously said, "Everything the government touches turns to shit."

Richard

bunyip wrote:Well Mike, that looks like an extremely poor attempt at Bart Cummings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( our American friends won't have a clue who I'm referring to ) Cheers Trev.

Shit mate, what do you have against poor old Bart

Nothing against the King of turf Mike. Just saying.

Un-f###ing-believable!! The jackass' that carved that POS had to have gotten the commission through nepotism and successfully hid their efforts till it was installed. These asswipes need their names to go viral for recognition of what they did and outright dared to charge half the commission's price to supposedly fix it. If they couldn't do the job worth a damn in the first place there's no way in hell they'd be able to fix that, much less do another of any better quality. It's assholes like this that give the real artists a bad rep to have to work past.

Seems when I saw this story the original sculpture was supposed to have been donated, in any case it was a pretty bad likeness not to mention awkwardly posed and should have never of been installed.

I do agree that things like this would make it more difficult for a working artist, the ones who should have gotten the recognition are the council members who approved it, someone had to have seen the finished sculpture before it was placed.