Realistic new sculptures of hooded men outside Laguna Beach City Hall draw mixed responses.
of taxpayer money toward the installation, while others praised the city’s openness to “edgy, provocative” work.Jenkins, who lives in West Virginia, described the characters as “shy,” “pretty docile” and “a little bit lost.”
In some ways, Jenkins said, the sculptures are replicas of himself. He cast them in the form of his own body. Their clothes — real gray hoodies and tan pants, hardened with resin — are the type he typically wears.One of artist Mark Jenkins' hooded figures in front of Laguna Beach City Hall aims a bow fitted with a toilet plunger at an apple perched on another's head.
“What if Mount Everest had a sign on it that said, ‘This is what I’m about’?” Jenkins said. “It’s sort of like that, you know, with the artwork. It’s best left to be a symbol and you can see it however you like. … You can go in a lot of different directions with it, and that’s kind of what we want — to ping pong around people’s minds.”
The matching men — covered head to toe, including black gloves and sneakers — speak to the age of global warming, according to Poeschl.
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