Am I Missing Something ?

[Bobbisox1]

The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square has been unveiled today, it's a cherry on cream with a fly in it!!!!!
It's gross, I wonder if it'll be pulled down? Probably not

https://i.postimg.cc/J4js37Qp/EC0-C94-D1-419-E-46-B5-9197-7837-E8-A7-CFA4.jpg

[Cloverjo]

Bobbi, surely you must have seen the meaning in the work.

//THE END represents exuberance and unease. Topped with a giant, unstable load, the plinth becomes a monument to hubris and impending collapse. The surrounding architecture and its population are participants in a mis-scaled landscape, one that magnifies the banal, and our cohabitation with other lifeforms, to apocalyptic proportions.//

Shame on you for not ‘getting’ it ;)))

https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/arts-and-culture/current-culture-projects/fourth-plinth-trafalgar-square/whats-coming-next-fourth-plinth-2020

[Bobbisox1]

Ah, thanks CJ, it must have been an oversight by me , haha

[emmie]

shame they can't find a permanent statue to put up there, sick of seeing an empty space, or some weird construction

[emmie]

i didn't get the symbolism but who would Jo

[Bobbisox1]

The Cherry is there for Two years Emmie, lol

[emmie]

i hate it

[emmie]

some wally from the art world thinks this is appropriate, huh.......

[davebro]

"This sculpture attempts to address the specific physical context of the square, whilst considering a broader ideological one."

I think you just made that up!

[Bazile]

Cloverjo
Wow, I wonder who wrote that .

Some first year uni student , studying phylosophy , i
suppose

[emmie]

i still hate it whatever it's supposed to be.

[Bobbisox1]

Someone will have been paid very handsomely for this :0)

[emmie]

should be fired out of a cannon...

[Bobbisox1]

Who ,the sculptor or the monstrosity ? :0))))

[douglas9401]

I still think my idea for the permanent installation of a pod of orcas is best.

Yes, the plinth of whales.

[Bobbisox1]

Douglas that's a much better idea than the cherry with a fly sticking in it :0)

[jno]

I like it. It does look bigger than it appears in that photo, though

https://tinyurl.com/y6fl2ujj

(apologies for the hidden URL there)

[Old_Geezer]

I think Bristol has a statue they could put there permanently. (Assuming the Bristol council are too weak to stand up to vandalism that is, and given the amount of graffiti left around the place, they are.)

[Maydup]

I preferred it before I read the blurb!

[pastafreak]

I think it's funny.

[Hymie]

If memory serves me right – many years ago on HIGNFY, Ken Livingstone (at the time he was mayor of London) announced that he had been given the nod that the fourth plinth was reserved for Her Maj once she pops her clogs.

One of the few things Ken said that makes perfect sense.