'A' is for Animals

This weekend Cleveland has its Asian Festival.  It is the Year of the Dog.  Twelve years ago was the first placement of painted fiberglass statues around St. Clair and Superior.  To-day, and to-morrow they would have been installed.  I looked forward to it, and began to photograph them.  They have made their circuit complete...too bad.

Well, Old Brooklyn (or Brooklyn Center) has replicas of four cement casts of animals placed in the neighborhood.  The originals were made by the Works Progress Administration. [See click.]  Land Studio and the then local councilman, Brian Cummins, had some squirrels, bears, a frog, and walrus placed in the area.  On Fulton, near the zoo, across from one of the squirrels, there is a red plastic elephant strapped to a too small pedestal on a cement rectangle.  It is wobbly.  You can pass it by on the exit ramp of I-71 North.

This plastic elephant was made in Milan by Cracking Art Group, there was only one; but hundreds of other plastic animals were placed about town by Land Studio [see click].  They were there just for the summer of 2016, and the red elephant was a nod to the evil that convened in town for a week. I am wondering who placed the exit ramp elephant, and why.