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The Puking Fountains of London
by Mike Richard
Klaus Weber, a fountain sculptor and apparent fan of bodily functions, has created an installation of stone sculptures entitled ‘The Big Giving’ on the South Bank in central London.
As part of London-based Southbank Centre’s new Hayward Fountain Series, Weber’s pieces let viewers contemplate the dynamics of corporeal flux in an eco-friendly way—all of the water is recycled—while suggesting that what comes out of our bodies is extremely and hysterically gross.
My thoughts exactly.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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October 26th, 2007
LOL those are the best statues. ever.