Friday, May 19, 2017

the painted cocks have arrived


General Tso's Chicken is standing on a mound of rice.

The last year of the public art project of Chinese zodiac animals has hit the streets about St Clair and Superior, East 30th, Chester. I have generally felt compelled toward completeness. Of the twenty new sculptures listed, eighteen were visible yesterday evening. They started with the year of the dog, and from that point the year of the cock is last, and they are not going to use that word, instead the Victorian bowlderisation 'rooster'. My new dog, Cassius, barked at a previous year's ram, yesterday. It would be something for him to see the forty dogs they had the first year.

This is the twelfth year of the animals. A few years into it the Cleveland Asian Festival has begun, and the St. Clair Superior Dev. Corp. who owns the sculptures (until the auction) have tried to place them on the streets immediately before the street festival. A group of the new figures, then, are mounted on East 30th in front of Asia Plaza.

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