There is an interesting new addition to the Canberran public art scene erected at the Drakeford Drive / Marconi Crescent intersection in Kambah. I think it went up this morning.
Anyone got the foggiest what it is meant to be? My money is on gamboling gold fish.
[ED – if someone can send a picture in to images@the-riotact.com that will be great]
UPDATE 31/03/12 13:25 Thanks to Threepaws who has been out to get a picture:
And also to Skidbladnir:
UPDATE 01/04/12 09:06: Mark has sent in this one with a note:
Here’s a pic. I note you have two already, but this one is a different angle and shows the structure nicely as it is visible from the road.
Also, there is already graffiti visible: a silver “shit happens :P” stencil on a central “petal” of the sculpture. Pretty sure this is new since last night: got this image this morning.
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I thought it was a lobster.
Well done RIOTACT. You are now officially “an influential city blog” (http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/theres-something-fishy-about-this-moth-20120402-1w96q.html).
Oh and apparently they’re not gold fish. It is “it is a representation of one giant, fluttering bogong moth” unless the CT is two days late with this story.
driving north at 10pm in the dark it the northern most on the west side one does look kind of like a goldfish. one 8 year olds make from an foam craft kit
An interesting observation about Marconi Cres. When I was in high school in 1975 someone said there was an unofficial nude beach at Kambah Pool where action took place in the bushes. I took out the Canberra map and planned my bike trip there noting the streets I had to travel on.
Drakeford Drive/Tuggeranong Parkway came to a halt just over the hill and you had to turn right into a street with a long, unpronounceable Aboriginal name. When I arrived at the intersection I saw on the signposts that the name had been changed to Marconi Cres.
Those were the days before public art although I saw a lot of much nicer pubic art down at The Pool 😛
We drove past this last night, what a hideous distraction.
Dilandach said :
There’s nothing troubling about an orgy, only when it happens on the side of a road in Kambah…
I like it.
It doesn’t look like it’s picked up any graffiti yet. Give it time…
Holy crap!
WTF is that!
Just how much more money has the loathsome ex Chief Minister committed the local ratepayers to pay for yet to be revealed ‘artworks’?
Is there a fleet of (preferred) artists out there, beavering away on potentially millions of dollars worth of ‘art’, commissioned before himself took leave of the exchequer?
To be installed completely in secret at some future date?
We are being treated like fools, to satisfy the meglomaniac Sonic.
Looks like crap, and is a waste of money. I guess nothing changes.
Keeping with the theme of installing public art with no soul … I can’t figure out why they keep buying such cheap and nasty looking crap when there is some really good stuff out there. Everything they have installed on main roads of late doesnt inspire me, I dont look forward to driving past them, I just see them and wonder how much they cost and think how out of place they look.
Gerry-Built said :
That’s not how a child’s mind operates, they’re not sensible, they’re not going to walk 500 metres to get across the road they’re going to run across the road nearest to their target. Another example of this is Melrose High and the southbund bus stop Athllon Drive, as kids we’d play chicken at that intersection without ever meaning to and not once did we think about the underpass a couple of hundred metres to the north.
Gerry-Built said :
LOL Jezz 🙂
gooterz said :
There are already so many underpasses along drakeford drive; why waste money on a bridge, make the kids walk/ride the extra 500m to the underpass – you know, the ones built when adequate infrastructure was provided…
Useless fact:
Its not an orgy of goldfish but the correct term is “A troubling of goldfish”.
This prooves one thing with artwork.. size matters!
If this was 200ft tall and 100 ft wide.. it would be more interesting!
I stopped at this intersection this morning and overheard a child ask his dad
“what’s that?”
“a waste of taxpayer money!”
so funny.
Marginally better then the steel spaghetti on the GDE, but still an irrelevance..What is this trying to achieve?
I’m all for the name “teppanyaki”… as it looks like bits of goldfish flying through the air (and the top pic even has the flying knife)…
I find this exactly 3.7 times less distasteful than anything along GDE…
When I saw it I thought someone had crashed their Tiger Moth.