Give San Francisco this much credit: at least their latest art installation doesn’t prompt any confusion over what it depicts. We think, anyway. But we’ll get to that point shortly.
These days, civic art installations usually take the form of modern-art monstrosities, especially sculpture. The most common reaction to these municipal art choices is inevitably, “What is it?” These inexplicable tangles of metal and/or plastic resemble nothing in life, leaving each denizen to walk past and connect it to his/her own experiences, mainly in the paying of taxes that went into the commission of such “art.”
But not San Francisco! Instead of choosing a post-modernist statement through tangled bronze that speaks to urban stupidity, the city chose instead to erect a monument to … erections, I guess. There can be no mistaking what their 45-foot art installation depicts;…
