December 10, Copenhagen. Six-foot whimsical globes encircle the square at KGS.Nytorv. The human scale allows for a more intimate relationship with the people who pass by.
Public art in public spaces engage in ways that a museum cannot duplicate. The chance encounters with something unfamiliar are provocative, and engaging. Is the experience also fleeting, and trivial? Perhaps some remnant of the humor and irony will trigger a lingering mantra. A failure of political will begins with a failure of the imagination.
There is an abundance of public art at COP15—perhaps it might provide the gift of a more poetic reverie to those who have become burdened during this plodding process.
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