Apparently good taste finally won the battle over art. This sculpture, which was outside of a local video production company here in Atlanta, is gone. I don't know when it was removed, but I drove past its former location a few days ago, and saw that either the composite of soup cans and bumpers had been painted with a new light-bending stealth paint, or they rusted away, or perhaps somebody just moved the damn thing. I'm betting on the latter, even though the former sounds way cooler. Actually, the video production company moved and I think they gave the property management the finger and took their damn statues with them. I bet they had to use the bigger U-Haul truck.

I can recall a few details from the placard: The piece was made by some US artist, now living in Spain, out of some 3,500 soup cans and old car bumpers. It was meant to symbolize the struggle of the weak against the overly powerful. I hear that the meak taste good with ketchup*. Anyway, here's a photo of the joint in memoriam.


*Interestingly, did you know this could be spelled catsup as well? I remember reading that on a bottle when I was a kid.