The Bloch Cancer Survivors Park on the Country Club Plaza is soon to get a 15-foot-tall "Transformed Flower" which is supposed to symbolize hope but looks to me like a cancer cell.
The Star reports:
The sculpture by California artist Phillip Smith is made of 90 layers of weather-resistant plastic that turn from yellow to orange to red. It will glow at night in the park at 47th Street and Roanoke Parkway.And I guess this is supposed to be nice and inspiring but it looks like crap. The Park is also about to get a makeover but anyone familiar with the KC area might remember when the the small strip of land was nothing more than a nice patch of green grass and a couple of swing sets. It was great and I played there often as a kid. It was much more relaxing, peaceful and beautiful than the cement monstrosity filled with bad art that it has transformed into . . . I guess a side effect of surviving cancer is feeling the need to impose your bad taste on the rest of the City. So, in that sense I guess the Park is a success.
But if it was a statue of a Mexican fixing a roof I suppose in your eyes it would promote cultural awareness?
ReplyDeleteThe art may look gaudy but the real art comes in building that thing
ReplyDeleteI like it. Kind of neat looking.
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