Yaletown is home to a few creepy sculptures. Besides this gigantic severed head – please note Jenette on the right for scale – there’s a very disturbing sculpture by the Yaletown Skytrain station of a huge distorted horse with a tied-up man on top. The man’s feet are gigantic and he looks very downtrodden with rope wrapped all around his arms and chest. I didn’t take a photo of it because it gives me nightmares. *shudder*
Meanwhile, over on Hamilton and Cambie Street, there’s this paved park (I don’t understand the paved part) dotted with a few trees and this great big head. Jenette told me that there was some kind of mattress inside the neck. I just took her word for it. I didn’t want to take that photo, either.
We were out scouting locations for a work video and decided against the big face as the background to explain ways to find work in Vancouver. I think those eye sockets would be very distracting in a video. Or, maybe I could get Jenette to step inside the head and speak out the eye sockets. That would be very professional.
Here’s a heavily cross-processed photo of the head just for fun:
Or maybe we can make the video up the nostrils? Very cool. We’re shooting part of the the video tomorrow, I’ll suggest it to Jenette. I’m sure she’ll be game.
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That would be cool! Like getting career advice from Zardoz:.
Plus, because its a ‘commercial’ video for work, you’d have to seek permission from the artist to use it – even in the background. Good choice not to use it!
Most interesting. I found out more about the horse here:
http://www.robinsonstudio.com/resources/events.html
Thanks for enlightening me.
Good thing you’re on top of that, Kelaine. That completely slipped my mind. DUH. And EEEEK! Denise!!! NOOOO!!!
Seems like a lot of work to go to to make a place to stay for a homeless person. I am not sure that head is waterproof so I don’t think it is successful as an overnight crash place. Weird.