The Obama Statues for Mid Market features local residents and how they change under the Obama statue's influence through the use of statues of the same person on different blocks of Market Street and in Civic Center Plaza.
The Obama Statues for Mid Market is a stages of change concept, but the statues will be further apart than in most other such displays.
Obama Statues:
1. Obama Marching the Kids to Higher Ground.
a. The kids include a few shaggy adults.
b. The shaggy kids look a little better.
c. The shaggy kids have gentrified.
2. Obama Pointing at Problem Child
a. Obama is pointing at Problem Child 1.
b. Obama is pointing at Problem Child 2.
c. Obama is pointing at Problem Child 3.
3. Problem Child Statues:
a. Problem Child 1 is aghast, in disbelief.
b. Problem Child 2 is looking a little more calm.
c. In Civic Center Problem Child 1 is going to work for the government.
d. Problem Child 2 is ignoring Obama.
e. Problem Child 2 is finally looking at him.
f. Problem Child 2 is listening to Obama .
g. Problem Child 3 is mooning Obama.
h. Problem Child 3 is pouting after Obama slaps him.
i. Problem Child 3 is pointing out a moon disapprovingly.
Obama Statues Are Being Made.
Obama Lenin with A Local.
Obama and His Ducks.
If the developers put in this building spanning Market Street then there is the opportunity to install a statue of a deprived local struggling with a smaller version of the building on his shoulders.
A Wrestling With An Angel Statue
This idea could work! If only the People created the sculptures, instead of well-paid private artists.
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