New sculpture in Woden. The Lemon Juicer?

What price can you put on art like this?

The leaning teardrop/pear/juicer of Woden. Is there anyone out there who has specifically requested more street “art” from their “government”? I know it’s petty to say that the money could buy something else, but if these peices of art are all they can come up with to try and turn Canberra into some sort of funky euro city then it’s a bit sad. Would like to know the price tag.

I’m willing to bet some trees around that corner would have looked nicer and been cheaper.

Having said that, it is one of the better looking pieces of public art I’ve seen.

p1 said :

gooterz said :

I wonder it if’ll do better than the belconnen ‘owl’ at being weather resistant!

Ahhh, maybe it is part of series started by the owl. Some sort of huge ßú??þ????

Now, I was thinking it but I most certainly wasnt going to say it 😛

Thoroughly Smashed said :

Looks like a Pear of Anguish.

Ah! This name gets my vote.

I hope they credit Philippe Starck with its design.

It’s essentially the Philippe Starck juicer with its legs ripped off and flipped upside down.
http://www.infatuated.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/philippe-starck-juicer-alessi.jpg

I’m thinking impossibly groovy aliens with an indecipherable message on their spaceship. I’m thinking Jesus wept (and that was over a health issue). It looks like it should open out into some other shape. I wonder if it’s about grief?

It’s beautiful, at least in these photos. But it makes the building behind it look so ugly. (Probably not very hard to do.)

Baldy said :

p1 said :

gooterz said :

I wonder it if’ll do better than the belconnen ‘owl’ at being weather resistant!

Ahhh, maybe it is part of series started by the owl. Some sort of huge ßú??þ????

Oh no. Now I will only think of it as the huge ßú??þ????

So where’s its twin?

Looks like a Pear of Anguish.

Apart from that mental image, I like it.

The first leaper suicide to it it will make a splash.

Should be interesting watching this during an electrical storm.

p1 said :

gooterz said :

I wonder it if’ll do better than the belconnen ‘owl’ at being weather resistant!

Ahhh, maybe it is part of series started by the owl. Some sort of huge ßú??þ????

Oh no. Now I will only think of it as the huge ßú??þ????

gooterz said :

I wonder it if’ll do better than the belconnen ‘owl’ at being weather resistant!

Ahhh, maybe it is part of series started by the owl. Some sort of huge ßú??þ????

They have ripped off the plastic reamer I got from Ikea, but it’s quite fetching.

However, what about the horrible sewerage smell that hangs around the area between the two health buildings? Fixing that would seem to be a good idea.

Looks like a giant tear drop cheese grater!

I wonder it if’ll do better than the belconnen ‘owl’ at being weather resistant!

It is a reptoid egg. Just wait until it hatches.

A friend has suggested it should be called “The Tears of the Taxpayer”