Well done to whoever did this! I love it! 😁
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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let 'em cook
Shame the age didn't give this much attention to the regular defacement of the gorgeous mural just behind this statue that some knob kept painting bible verses over last year.
Whats the mural?
It was a gorgeous with bright oranges and yellows, filled with faces of people and hounds in a grotesque style. Whoever the vandal was took particular offence to the eyes and teeth, because that's what they covered in white roller. Unfortunately council has now painted the whole thing over with grey.
So, the artist 'mic' wanted someone to religiously challenge his work.
I don't mind that as art goes. Bit sensationalist. But i hope the artist didn't get paid a heap of money to beautify a grey cement wall only for the place to end up with a grey cement wall.
You hope the artist didn’t get paid because someone vandalised their work?
That is such a strange take.
From the article linked it seemed like he went looking for someone to vandalise his work
If thats the case, then the wants of artists clashes with the wants of the payers to beautify the wall
Clean up any rough/sharp edges on the ankles, put a splash of something on the paint to preserve it and leave it there for (hopefully) generations to come.
Aussiemandias
Mate of mates
Look on my beers all ye mighty and despair
Ordinarily I'm more in favour of taking down colonialist statues and putting them in a museum, but this will do just fine for today.
I think the whole thing as is (vandalised and all) should be put in a museum. History is not linear or static. We actively create and engage in history each day. Vandalising and pulling down these statues is not erasing history but rather contributing to it. If the statue gets cleaned and fixed then that is arguably an act of historical erasure.
They're just helping to get it down off its plinth is all.
I'm honestly surprised it lasted this long / hasn't been vandalised before.
It's been vandalised before. There's a gallery in the article with pictures from two prior incidents where it's been hit with paint.
They should do a new statue of James Cook preparing for dinner in Tahiti.
Well, I supported indigenous people 100%, but this is just so rude that I have changed all of my beliefs.
lol, lmao even
Bart?
Good work.
Even though some knob in that article says I am ‘outraged’ by this I most definitely am not.
My emotions aren’t regulated by what happens to a statue.
~~Based~~ Plinthed
I originally thought this was in Hawaii before looking at what community this was in. Well done on the protest.
I wonder what they imagine "the colony falling" to be like. How would that be rolled out, what exactly does that even mean anymore? Seems more performative than an actual attempt to change something.
Oh...