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| Owl [Bruce Armstrong. 2011. Fibreglass and hardwood] |
Not a great photo of it, but I thought I'd run with this one because it's Canberra's latest large-scale public artwork: a giant owl, 8 metres high, and costing $400 000, unveiled on Thursday by our outgoing Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope, at the intersection of Belconnen Way and Bejamin Way in Belconnen.
The sculptor, Bruce Armstrong from Melbourne, said he chose an owl because it is traditionally linked to wisdom, and a group of owls is known as a parliament. ''The owl watches quietly over his domain like a guardian spirit or totem,'' he said.He based the sculpture on Australia's largest owl, the Powerful Owl, although commenters have suggested it bears a resemblance to other things ...
3 comments:
Lovely new security camera !
;-)
Pierre
Hah! That was actually one suggestion for it! Just in the right place at a major intersection too. Someone else suggested it would be much cooler with laser eyes at night :P
Thanks for all your lovely comments by the way :)
"Other things" dont have two holes, though!!
I had forgotten that it is a 'parliament of owls'. HOwever, not our particular parliament in Canberra. Not this current crop ...
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