When I made it to my bus stop at Broadway and Harrison this morning, I found that overnight some mysterious gang of roving street artists had left four curious and rather morbid sculptures on the corner in various poses...They all have the same basic form, a white box of about human height (one has a cavity, two are bent); they have arms with realistic human hands (though two are broken off, whether by design or due to vandalism I'm not sure) attached to boxy pseudo-shoulders. The morbidity comes from the faces...They're detailed casts (I think) of human faces wearing various, unsettling expressions, complete with teeth, tongues, realistic nostrils; they look pained. One seems to be screaming. My first thought was of the robot Box from Logan's Run. My second was of the Master's face at the end of The Deadly Assassin, superimposed over his grandfather clock TARDIS.
Hopefully they'll still be there this evening, so I can get some photos...They're pretty great.
UPDATE (That very evening): I got a few photographs...Unfortunately, some assclowns have been vandalising them. Someone poured coffee on one; one had its arm torn off. I tried to fit it back on as best I could...
Each photo is 600x800 pixels (or 800x600), and less than 70k. I'd have thumbnails up, but MovableType doesn't want to make any for me right now.
First Figure
Second Figure
Third Figure
Fourth Figure
Second Figure's Face
Third Figure's Face
Second Figure's Face II
This is amazing! I love street art! I hope the bastards that vadalized them finds themselves with a horrible case of herpes or other fitting ailment. Nice work on the photos!
~Mr.M
When I saw them Friday, they had been moved again: Second Figure appeared to be taking Third Figure roughly from behind. They've been moved again since...
Posted by: aloysius on April 11, 2004 11:21 PM
