PUBLIC SCULPTURE OPINION POLL 
Episodic
Three views of Josh Garber's "Episodic" located at Grand and Western.

Clipboards and Responses

Clipboard on light poll Clipboard on phone stand

Closeup of response on a clipboard One response to our poll

An Objective Compilation of Public Opinions of Josh Garber's Sculpture:

Ugly (11)
Sucks (5)
What is it? (5)
I don't like it (4)
Cool (4)
Prefer Army tank that was once on this site (4)
Beautiful (3)
Don't know why it's here (3)
I like it (3)
Nice (3)
Okay (3)
Put lights around it (2)
Rusting (3)
Abstract (2)
Don't give a fuck (2)
Eye Sore (2)
Fountain would have been better (2)
It is/looks like nothing (2)
Makes No Sense (2)
Not very good (2)
Remove it (2)
Stupid (2)
To help/made by friends of Mayor Daley (2)
Would make a good rollercoaster (2)
Acceptable
Another piece of metal doesn't add anything
Artistic
Bad news
Bent up
Can go fuck itself
Catches everyone's eye
Colorful
Could have painted it a bright color
Crap
Crazy
Don't care for it
Drab color
Dumb
Enchanting
For the government to get more money out of us
For white people only
Gives color to area
Good
Great
Has got to go
Has too much negative space
Interesting
Intestines
It belongs here
It's for me
Junk
Just looks like a pole twisted
Looks like a big heart
Looks like gentrification
Looks like a pretzel
Maker was bored and trying to get attention
Makes the neighborhood look good
Makes you stare
Makes you wonder what it could be
Motherfucking
Needs more pizazz
Needs work
Not art
No good
Not very interesting aesthetically
Piece of shit
Phony
Placed to destroy the memory of loyal American fighting forces
Pretty
Put there because that’s all the space there was
Scientific
Should put some by Rockwell Garden
Shows the intangled minds of the neighborhood
Something meaningful and creative should replace it
Stinks
Symbolizes life and all of it's ins and outs/ups and downs
Take that damn sculpture and put it in your asshole
Talk of the neighborhood
Think the person who made it was smoking crack
Too many bushes around it
Twisted
Unique
Useless
Very hard to figure out
Very large
Waste of tax payer's money
Waste of time
Weird
We need more sculptures like this in our neighborhood
What's the point of it?
Wonderful
Worn
Wrong

* Note: Opinions are extracted from larger responses that will be printed in a future booklet.

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Procedure for Polling the Public

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