This is just one of several pieces done by
sculptor Tom Otterness for the 14th Street/
Eighth Avenue subway station. (More of
his work can be seen on Fifth Avenue
and at Battery Park.)
I was just coming off the L for Love train,
so-called because some of my daughter
Lila's friends, including the couple here,
met on the L train. I did not see the man
of my dreams, just a rat (granted, it was
dead and down on the tracks, but still . . .).
If one is to take this sculpture at face value one would have to assume that the floors of Manhattan penthouses are teeming with manhole covers that give direct access to the NYC sewer system. Is rapacious the word?
ReplyDeleteI like this photo! I also adore unusual sculptures in unusual places.
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