New statue is turning heads

[border_humper]

WARMINGTON: New statue is turning heads while reminding that cancelling history cancels freedom

While reminding us that cancelling history cancels freedom.

torontosun.com

Screams “Toronto” to me.

Called Moments Contained, this nine-foot-high (2.7 metre) bronze sculpture on Dundas St. West at McCaul St. outside of the Art Gallery of Ontario, is Toronto’s newest statue.
“A celebration of shared humanity, Moments Contained is one of popular British artist Thomas J Price’s public sculptures that challenges assumptions about the purpose and expectations of monuments,” says the AGO, who unveiled it Thursday evening, adding it’s “an object of great beauty” that the artist hopes “is a gesture he hopes can lead to greater empathy and connection.”

The AGO describes this fictional woman with “a serene expression” and “her feet firmly planted on the sidewalk, she appears outwardly confident, but the hands she hides in her pockets are visibly clenched, suggesting a tension between her inner thoughts and outward expression.”

 

[Rusty Canuckleford]

Just what we need, another giant monkey statue.

 

[ovarieasy]

Amazing that all modern 'art' needs to 'challenge societal expectations'.
Really? An overweight, frumpy, uppity sheboon? The most over-represented creature in the West? Stunning and brave.

 

[Hirudinea]

Looks like she wants to slap the shit out of you for being white.

 

[ovarieasy]

Still angry about being conalized


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZMkuMAcsQ

 

[Hirudinea]

@ovarieasy

Soooooooo, if we give you reparations you WILL go the fuck back where you came from and never bother us again? Ok, deal!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXRrYWmQ_g

 

[Rusty Canuckleford]

“Challenge societal expectations” = “Make it deliberately ugly”

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

3/4 ton and a chain is all i see

 

[border_humper]

You don’t see her defiant fists clenched in her sweatpants? From dealing with all the microagressions?

 

[ButteryBastard]

popular British artist Thomas J Price

We couldn’t even find a Canadian to make a sculpture of an obese black woman? What happened to elbows up buy Canadian?

 

[Hirudinea]

Shit this stupid has to be outsourced.

 

[ex_libris]

Makes for a perfect structure for dogs and birds to shit on.

 

[Hirudinea]

Not if they don't want to go to jail.

 

[Jack Layton]

I think the guy blowtorching the photo radar should divert his attention elsewhere.