Monday 29 September 2008

Shark on roof



This is a head turner! A massive shark seems to have nose-dived into someone's roof! But actually it was specifically built in memory of the atomic bombings in Nagasaki, 

“The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation….It is saying something about CND, nuclear, power, Chernobyl and Nagasaki.” Bill Heine (owner of the house) commented to journalist's.

It brought media attention from around the world, aswell as controversy from the locals. Council officials tried to bring it down in terms of health and safety but they found that the support system was well structured. They also tried to take it down because he didn't have any planning permission but an appeal to the secretary state for the environment won the case and the shark stayed. 

This was such a big statement and it still is now. It's reassuring that people still stand their ground on subjects that matter to them, and in a graphical sense, this is certainly inventive and different.

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