Call me a philistine, but this sculpture has always seemed to me to lack any serious creative or evocative essence. It's a little striking because it's large and imposing, but that's all the emotion I can get from it on a good day, when I try.

It's not bad. The area has plenty of bad sculpture. Web Link Web Link

It's just not good. Palo Alto can keep it as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather have a solar panel on a pole in its place, or a windmill hooked in to the local electric grid supplying power.

I'm quite comfortable in giving Mtn View's second-hand art to the culturally challenged.

Solar panels on a pole do resemble metal, angular, modern-art. As expensive as solar cells are, they are cheaper than the "art" pieces strewn about the Bay Area. Maybe we could get an NEA grant to put up some solar art.

If there is an international financial crisis because house prices are falling because there is too much housing built, why is the city so beholden to developers that they keep building more? When the State has to raise regressive sales tax?

Why don't we use that NEA grant to see who can write the best initiative to get the developers up off their knees and out from under the Councils' diases?

The word is "daises" but you're right. Government at different levels is grossly dysfunctional and uncoordinated. Maybe initiative action is all we have left after the legislators have proven that they don't have what it takes to address the basic needs of the community.

DO NOT shove that atrocious piece of art into Palo Alto. We have enough ugly going on over here.
Keep the damn thing, or scrap it. Better yet, send it COD back to the artist that dumped it here.