The Owners' Corporation of the Elan Apartments is considering replacing the infamous poo on sticks at the top of William Street with something else. They are open to suggestions.
There has been a lot of talk about putting a giant neon sculpture in place to celebrate the heritage of neons in this area, and the new pro-neon signage policy applying to the Cross. I like a giant pink pussycat. Another suggestion is a giant phoenix, referring to a now-demolished sign in that spot which was a well-known rendezvous point.
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"The sad part of this story are the largely unreported facts that the sculpture was never finished and wasn’t made from materials specified by the artist. Looking rather like papier mache balls hoisted up some flag polls, the sculpture was meant to have the appearance of gravity defying rocks hanging on metal poles with each pole flanked by a fir tree. If you know the artist’s work, you’d know how good this could have looked but the builders of the Elan did it all on the cheap. Unsworth told Spike he wasn’t upset if it were removed and frankly, considering how bad it ended up, who can blame him?"
Turn the area around it into an Asian night food market (your idea Mr Editor).
There has been a suggestion of possibly replacing the poo sticks with a water feature to compliment the El Alemain fountain at the other end of the Cross. Nice idea but hopefully any water feature here would be designed to be accomodate or enhance the very exposed aspect of this site. The site is particularly windy and wind and water don't always go together to produce the desired effect. There have been many fountains installed on ill-conceived sites around Sydney that have been mostly left dry until their eventual removal.
I like the pink pussycat idea myself. And the Asian night food market.
Paint the poo white and call them rice and add a few more grains of rice. Call the sticks chopsticks. Possibly reposition the rice and voila a logo for the asian night food market.
A little imaginative thinking and it could become a tourist attraction. That area is a large empty space and it could become the alternative growers market (Darlinghurst)
We need a work of art which is a drawcard. What we have now is not. An example is the 1999 Jeff Koons puppy sculpture at the MCA. It was a huge draw card. Most of the sculpture around Sydney is plain bloody boring. Ok I know we have a drought but you can see what I mean.
How about a huge stainless Koala or Kanga. A blow up stainless steel one like Koons rabbit. There is so much talent in Australia so how about some imagination please. HBow about turning that area into a sculpture park.
To incorporate a water feature and sculpture, how about a giant syringe, either plunged into the paving at a rakish angle and water bubbling in the chamber; or upturned and spurting water sporadically from the needle?
How about a row of crucifixes with the carcases of dead King Cross retailers hanging from them.
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