r/nottheonion • u/PauloPatricio • 1d ago

Saskatoon defends $297,000 plastic rock art project

https://www.sasktoday.ca/saskatoon-today/saskatoon-news/saskatoon-defends-297000-plastic-rock-art-project-12604052
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u/Impossible_Offer7988 1d ago

Celene Anger, the city's community services general manager, defended the art installation, saying that public art is part of building a vibrant and welcoming city as it contributes to quality of life, community identity, and economic attractiveness, alongside essential services.

Right and a rock that's made out of Plastic is supposed to represent that.

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u/eddiewachowski 1d ago

The funny thing is that since they had a budget of almost $300000, I'm certain they could have sourced real rocks.

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u/Traveling_Solo 1d ago

I feel like they could have gone to any place with trash, taken any plastic they found, recycled it, made the art with that and still have had money left... Not like there's islands of plastic in the oceans or anything >.>

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u/Kile147 1d ago

My initial assumption from the headline was that this project was an attempt at recycling. Like maybe a cleanup effort produced a lot of junk plastic and instead of putting it in a landfill they turn it into an art installation to show off what they achieved kind of thing. If this is literally just a commissioned piece that used new plastic, wtf.