'I don't remember eating that...'

Best not to comment on other sculptors' work.

For a number of reasons.

• You never know the circumstances under which a work has been made or the pressures of the commission.  (I have made some absolute howlers when compelled to complete under duress and would certainly not wish to be judged on those alone).
• You never know; you may, one day, meet the sculptor over dinner or with a big hammer in her hand.
• Sometimes people just have a bad day, or week, or year or decade and that is fine and needs to be tolerated because the path to a oneness with creative output is different for everyone.

And who is to judge?  Encouraged by our impartial and thought-provoking media, we all love to be outraged by art.  Goodness knows why.  Artists are rarely malevolent and even those who are driven by diabolic intent are fairly harmless in the wider scheme of things.  Most artists I know just want to do their thing, give that thing to the world and, with any luck, get paid something in return so that they can carry on doing their thing.  And they want to be loved.

Perhaps we get outraged by art because we simply cannot get our heads around the things we are impotent to affect.  Things like wars, traffic jams, and the terrifying level of consumption and pollution in developed countries.  And, on a personal note, the blatant disregard for the English language on supermarket signage:  "10 items or less" springs to mind. To think that children may every once in a while glance up from the cake-trough and see such a sign.  Just as well that the effects of the cuts might mean that fewer and fewer of them will be able to read.

That said....

...some will be able to pass this shining example of mythologocial/classical/sexually charged/onanistic symbolism on their way to and from school each day.

For the record, I am not at all outraged by this...merely very amused for, probably, all the wrong reasons.

I could not find a title or attribution of any kind on the sculpture or plinth.  It does look as if it may have been conceived out of a game of sculpture Consequences, so perhaps there was more than one perpetrator.

I felt at liberty to come up with my own title (see title) and wonder whether you can too...suggestions in the comment box please and don't forget to keep it clean....children may be reading this.