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Those things are god awful, aren't they?

I give them four months before skateboarders pull them down.

I have to pass these things every day on my way to work and frankly I'm enjoying them. It's a little bit of art amidst the soulless concrete, you know? And at least my eyes get a break before the TRULY annoying Paramount banners for Frankenstein.

"will oppresses" and "the sun of his own inspiration"

"will oppress" sorry

To quote a friend of mine, the grammar of this post makes my eyes want to commit suicide.

i think they are great! they remind me of supermall art!

I hate how everything chaz ever says is leading. It "WILL OPPRESS US".

If you're so weak willed to have bad art oppress you, then I feel bad for you.

A bunch of vines would spruce them up a bit, and maybe make them look kind of interesting...

Let's revolt by putting laundry detergent on them! Then we can go Local Bar and decry New Development! Then we can overturn all Flexcars! Then we can finally save NPR and PBS for other white children!

Look at that! He got an editor!

Hi Dylan! I'm his editor.

You are the hottest editor in Seattle! ;)

why are they fenced?

i'd check it out but i don't care that much. public art in seattle is always about salmon.

WHAT is so annoying about the Young Frankenstein banner as compared to these pieces of CRAP?

They look like oversized kitchen utensils

Thank you for hating these. I passed them on foot the other day for the dozenth time and really got a good look at them. Horrible. And the 1973 building they just built behind them? Horribler. How can some city projects be so good (city hall, librarie galore) and others be so detestable?

Next you're going to tell us that the Watts Towers are ugly and that crazy old italian men have no business building junk monuments you racist!

I can't wait to get to those sculptures you posted and cover them in papaer mache!

You fucking whiners need to get over yourselves. Seattle has a shocking lack of public art as it is (stupid-ass pigs not included), and anything built on that piece of former trashed-out wasteland is better than what came before.

I fucking HATE those sculptures. The only good thing about them is that they take up space where the city would otherwise put up more pigs. A parking lot would be a better use of this space.

The YF banners are glaring and ugly and ever since they came up, I've had to avert my eyes. They seriously give me a headache. (/whine)

Those things remind me of kitchen utensils, like a spatula and an egg whip. Yikes what a bad idea.

I agree with @21. That was my first reaction.

They're not scupltures, it is a small frisbee-golf park.

Are they supposed to be wire mothers?

I prefer the Terry-cloth Mommy.

i liked the idea of letting vines grow over them. now THAT would be some bad-ass sculpting.

as they are now, they definitely look akin to a frisbee golf course.

I think these sculptures are excellent and beautiful, and I think Mr Mudede is genuinely insane. Perhaps driven that way by the sun of his own pretentiousness. He has a lovely way with words, which is useful for a writer, but clearly his brain is upside down.

I'm sorry. That was trollish. Mudede /is/ veering towards the ridiculous in this blurb, however.

This subject interested me enough to read the comments, looking for some information about the sculptures, the artist, the point, etc.

Does anyone know anything, I mean factual background-wise, about these things? I'm interested!

They are made by well-known artist Reis Neimi, a Lakeside grad and son of King County Superior Court Judge Janice Neimi (retired). Mr. Neimi is an acomplished artist with public art commissions located across the U.S.. He is a Seattle native, currently residing in Skagit County.

Dilettantes.