Is this wierd?

[kuozzman]

Is it odd that this is the description that is given for a piece of art in a popular park on U.S. government property?

Taking over its corner of the park with gleeful abandon, Tom Otterness´s whimsical sculptural installation, entitled The Real World, is one of New York´s most popular public artworks. Cast in bronze, the sculptures feature Otterness´s signature cartoonish figures: animals and people, bankers and robbers, laborers and pilgrims, predators and prey, all rubbing shoulders in his delightfully loopy narrative world. There is an entire bustling society in miniature, including frogs wrestling over a moat, a tilting tower, and diminutive workers rolling giant pennies toward a multi-armed idol. Scattered nearby are a giant fist and feet, and a bulbous-nosed creature seated on a bench, pondering a bound animal that may be a meal. Yet even as his characters erect their monuments and enact their wiles, they remain oblivious to the giant viewer. Mixing levity and discord, biology and social commentary, Otterness´s fanciful world is always vividly entertaining.

[atommom]

1. It sounds like a vivid nightmare one might have after going on a

bender (and eating way too much junk food). But that's probably just my Democratic gloom showing. :D