Hey, Australians, do you have to raise taxes in order to pay schoolteachers?
An Australian artist has created a rock sculpture in the shape of an egg that resides in a remote section of one of Australia’s national parks.
“Remote” means even Crocodile Dundee can’t find it. The second-best part:
…which in time will essentially disappear once it has been grown over by strangler fig.
It’s going to disappear! And the best part:
…the Department of Environment and Resource Management has paid the artist, Andy Goldsworthy, more than $700,000 for the creation, entitled “Strangler Cairn.”
Seven hundred grand for a sculpture that almost nobody will ever see even before it disappears inside a bush!
Hell, I’ll build a temporary egg-like sculpture out of smaller rocks for half that. And I’ll pay my own airfare!
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You know, I was waiting for the punchline, expecting some sort of insane cost for the “art”, but, good grief, $700k was still a shock.