Thursday, December 28, 2017

About that four-storey phallus


The street artist Carolina Falkholt doubtless expected to provoke a reaction when she painted a large phallus on the outside of a building on New York’s Lower East Side, and she got it, much of it expressed as sincere worries for the tender sensibilities of children. (Just read some Freud, people.) But I was rather fond of the response of local resident Sal Balvo: “I’m walking down the street and I see a genital. That’s what I came to New York for.”

1 comment:

briteness said...

A giant cock on a building on a public street? No. You hardly need to invoke kids to recognize how fucked up that is. "No redeeming social value", as they used to say.