There’s a massive, illicit bust of edward snowden stuck to a war monument in brooklyn

[Jesus Malverde]

While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday morning. The group, which allowed ANIMAL to exclusively document the installation on the condition that we hide their identities, hauled the 100-pound sculpture into Fort Greene Park and up its hilly terrain just before dawn. They fused it to part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary War soldiers. As of press time, the sculpture was still there. UPDATE: Parks Department put a tarp over the bust and removed it this afternoon.

The idea for the Snowden tribute was conceived about a year ago by two New York City-based artists with a history of pulling off notable public interventions. They linked up with a renowned sculptor on the West Coast who was sympathetic to their cause.

http://animalnewyork.com/2015/theres-a-massive-illicit-bust-of-edward-snowden-stuck-to-a-war-monument-in-brooklyn/

[MADem]

1. Almost never a good idea to alter an existing memorial.

All you need is one single person who likes to visit the thing, who had an ancestor who suffered on a POW ship during the Revolutionary War, to take umbrage.

Far better to mimic the style, to include the column, and place the faux memorial somewhere else in the general vicinity, mirroring it perhaps, or off to the side, maybe in a grassy area with some plantings that match the ones in the general vicinity. Then sit back and shut up, no bragging, complete silence--take pictures of the thing every day for the days, weeks and months that it sits there, and only after it has become part of the landscape for awhile should they reveal that it has been sitting there for all that time.

[merrily]

2. Totally irrelevant, but it doesn't look a lot like Snowden to me.

[KittyWampus]

3. Was a massive- was. It's gone already. LOL

[Fuddnik]

4. It should be at the front gate of Fort Meade.