The town of Sintra, located 20km west of Lisbon, is currently hosting an outdoor sculpture exhibition. This piece made me chuckle:
Don’t ask me what this is supposed to represent…the interesting part is to be found at the foot of the construction
No need to squint… here’s a close-up
…but some sticky-fingered folk aren’t so easily deterred, evidently….
Lady Of The Cakes 
You should have made one of those for when you were on public transport 😉
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You take one of those on public transport, and they’d strip it completely! Not what the artist intended….
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I still don’t know what she did intend 😉
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Maybe having idiots deface her work was the point all along…!
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I love the spell-corrected sign 🙂
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I’m confused by this sculpture in general. And more specifically — maybe it’s different in person — why people assumed it was money? My first thought wasn’t coins. Not sure what it was, actually, but not that…
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I blame it on the economic crisis. When I’m hungry, everything starts to look like food.
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Ha, first I was squinting of course… Thanks for the close-up.
Did the artist put up the sign? Looks like some children did. But maybe that’s so very artsy about it…
I guess, if you have people stealing your fake coins (and I agree with Polly, they don’t look like coins at all), at least you know your work gets noticed.
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Nah, I think that was the artist putting up the sign… lol.
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It reminds of the Pixar lamp thingy…
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Yes, that’s popped into my mind, too 😉
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It would be more effort than it’s worth to prise those coins off there even if they were real!
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She’s really into the fake money thing. My favorite is the female torso made of fake gold money… http://www.artelection.com/artistas_obras.php?cd_artista=81
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Oh my, trust you to check it out 😉 I see the artist’s got experience with those things, lol.
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