The next time you’re in Prague, look up. You may see a dangling sculpture of Sigmund Freud hanging by an arm from a pole attached to the roof of a building. According to art critics, it was created to question the outsized role of intellectualism in the twentieth century and to portray Freud’s own phobia of his death.
If you’re interested in something more uplifting, visit the United Nations Park in Buenos Aires’s Recoleta neighborhood. There you will find a seventy-five-foot-tall mechanical flower made of stainless steel and aluminum. It opens and closes with the sun and has become one of the most iconic symbols in the city.
These are just two of the “strangest statues in the world,” as described by Travel Trivia. Another is Carhenge, a display in Nebraska of thirty-eight cars from the 1940s and 1950s set up in a manner akin to Stonehenge.
In Chicken, Alaska, we can meet a twelve-foot-tall metal chicken standing on a hill. A twenty-six-foot-tall stainless-steel fork is displayed, tines down, in Lake Geneva. An eighty-five-foot-tall creation in Nice, France, displays a giant cube atop a head which is visible from the mouth and jaw through the neck. The cube houses seven floors of offices of the municipal library.
The sculpture that most interested me is Christ of the Abyss in San Fruttuoso, Italy. It is an 8.5-foot-tall statue of Jesus with his arms and hands raised. The statue is situated at the floor of a bay on the Italian Riviera at a depth of nearly sixty feet.
This is near where an Italian diver died. Every year, on the last Sunday of July, a torch-lit mass is celebrated on the nearby beach to honor those who have died at sea. After the mass, divers secure floral crowns to the base of the underwater statue.
Strange sculptures and the urgency of faith today
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