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The worst example of public sculpture I've ever seen (1)

Sumbawa, Indonesia

Fuji S2 digital, Nikon 12-24

This extraordinary monument is in a government office compound on the main thoroughfare in Bima. You have to wonder.

The unpleasantly organic looking brown globes, connected by some kind of limp-pasta like integument. The sparkley thing on top that presumably lights up at night. The hands. What could this mean? Did I really want to know?

We were told that the brown globes are actually meant to represent eggs, a metaphor for the young and the future of Bimanese society, carefully nurtured, etc. etc. Yeah, right.


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