100 things: 100 photos - photo 43: mayfly

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100 things: 100 photos - photo 43

Aug 31, 2015 10:46

I really love public art. Even though it can be very hit and miss - in Greece in particular we have an abundance of obscenely ugly modern public art - I prefer an ugly sculpture over no sculpture at all any time.

This particular interesting piece is in the middle of Metaxourgio square in Athens. This is an ugly square in a run down area that efforts have been made over the past decade to improve and maybe even gentrify the area. Cleaning up the square and adding this large an odd sculpture was part of those efforts.

For anyone who knows greek mythology the sculpture obviously is meant to represent Icarus falling from the skies. So this sculpture is at once rather ugly, but also very intriguing and eye-catching and even a little bit poignant and thought-provoking.

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