New York commissioned a public works sculpture ….of a realistic pigeon.
The 16-foot-tall bird will perched atop the High Line elevated park on the city’s west side. Named the ‘Dinosaur’ by artist Iván Argote, hyper-realist aluminum sculpture of a pigeon by Iván Argote, the Bogotá-born, Paris-based artist.
“The name Dinosaur makes reference to the sculpture’s scale and to the pigeon’s ancestors who millions of years ago dominated the globe, as we humans do today,” Argote said in a statement. “The name also serves as reference to the dinosaur’s extinction. Like them, one day we won’t be around anymore, but perhaps a remnant of humanity will live on — as pigeons do — in the dark corners and gaps of future worlds. I feel this sculpture could generate an uncanny feeling of attraction, seduction and fear among the inhabitants of New York.”
By the way, the city’s pigeon population is larger than its human population, with around nine million birds compared to the nearly eight million people living in the city.
So what New Yorkers want to see is another pigeon?