Because there are so many statues, this is where we notice
that they are all covered in see-through netting. We had originally thought this
practice was to stop vandalism or to avoid parts of crumbling sculptures
falling onto people. Instead, we were informed that the netting is meant to
deter birds from settling on the statues and pooping. But aren’t statues meant
to be festooned by pigeons and lovingly painted with their excrement?!? Is that
not the raison d’etre of being a statue?? Not to mention the offense to a pigeon’s
raison d’etre. My new photographic purpose was to find a statue with NO
netting, and with a bird. And I did! – just one.
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