Penis Size MATTERS


Sculptures-and-statues


	Chelsea Waterside Park







	Echo Park, Los Angeles, USA


	A tipster sends in this photo and writes: "As if Echo Park isn't strange enough, this blue penis sculpture was just merrily sitting on the hellstrip on Allesandro at Whitmore this afternoon. It disappeared in just a few hours. Who put it there? Who picked it up?



	El carallo 29 de Santiago D.C, Chile


	Phallus in 29 de la Rua Travesa, Santiago, Chile

	Legend says: In the middle of the Middle Ages a meteor from Krypton struck the facade of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The frightened neighbors came curiously to the crater and there, carved in granite with a purity unmatched representation was rocky carallo 29. After several centuries without knowing that was it, the browser and miracle potions vendor, David Livingstone, he found the rock in the middle of the streets of the city (at number 29 in the Rua Travesa). Since then, the city became the third holiest shrine in Christendom, tradition dictates roam the surface of the rock by hand, hence its peculiar shape.



	Tidvattnets klocka







	Tidvattnets klocka - Tidal water clock is a sculpture by Henjasaj Koda. The sculpture is erected in Gräfsnäs slottspark, Sweden.



	Merchavia phallus





	The Sculpture Garden at Merchavia, Israel (three kilometers from Afula, in the Jezreeli valley) is a project for peace - which joins sculpture with nature area. There is a number of massive basalt sculptures, made by a dynamic group of sculptors, from different countries. The sculpturing was done in ethnic methods - drilling and a lot of chisel work.



	London phallus


	Giant penis statue with wings in the ladies toilet, Thai Square - 166-170 Shaftesbury Av, London.



	Come to Mock Stay to Rock, New York, USA


	Martin Esteves Come to Mock Stay to Rock at the exhibition "ECSTATIC" at St. Cecilia’s Parish, New York. The advertised sole purpose of this five-foot-tall phallic standing sculpture, the work of Martin Esteves, was to fulfill the role occasionally assigned to its medium: Something you bump into while looking at the art on the walls.



	Sculpture/art installation


	"when i first saw this sculpture/art installation, i thought my fever had come back, but sure enough, there, by the side of the road on the edge of our little town of 3500, there is in fact a giant wooden penis sculpture sticking up out of a car. the way the tree stump sticks out of the bottom of the car (will be featuring this again, don't worry), it looks like the tree was growing there and they lowered the car down on it (would like to have seen that). husband and i can't remember if there was in fact a tree stump there before. and today, i heard that it was moved from another town, where they were asked to remove it. but our little town prides itself on featuring lots of sculpture. you know, to rest your eyes on and make you think."
	Observer



	Røros phallus



	Per Lysgaard is a second-generation ceramic artist who lives and works in Røros, Norway. Since 1987 he has worked fulltime at his ceramic workshop and gallery in Røros. As of 2005, his sculptural expression has developed around the theme of ocean life, especially the marine plants and animals that create an illusion of weightlessness. In recent years he has worked extensively with public art, both nationally and internationally.



	This phallic statue in ceramic is erected in front of the workshop.



	Lysgaard debuted at eighteen years old with an exhibition of ceramics, drawings and paintings. The venue was the Danish National Bank in Tåstrup (1976). He also exhibited there the following year. Yet in spite of the favourable response, he was unsure of whether he wanted to be a fulltime artist. In the following years his life pattern was similar to many a young person who lacks clear direction, yet he continued to pursue his art. He built a ceramics workshop, sold his production at markets, then relocated, built a new workshop and repeated the scenario. He worked at two workshops run by other ceramic artists in Denmark and spent a year creating ceramics at Valdres Sølvsmie in Norway. Alongside of this, to make ends meet, he worked industrially, producing kitchen furniture, ovens and car windows, and as a dairy farmer. In 1983 Lysgaard moved to Røros, Norway. On Kjerkgata, a pedestrian street in the centre of town, there was an old dilapidated house. He bought it in 1985 with the plan of turning it into a new ceramics workshop and gallery. The house was falling apart and ready for demolition, but Lysgaard set to work and restored it in one and a half years. He then opened Lysgaard Ceramics – a workshop and gallery. Since 1987 he has worked fulltime with ceramics, dividing his time between functional art, sculptural expressions and public commissions. At present his gallery welcomes approximately 60,000 visitors per year. It is safe to say that Lysgaard has made an indelible mark on Kjerkgata. Each gallery room is richly and imaginatively decorated, so also the courtyard. Tiles and sculptural forms interact in cheerful, colourful rhythms. Here one can immerse oneself in small details, such as in the beautiful tile pattern inserted between flagstones – or be overwhelmed by the six-meter tall ceramic tree in the courtyard, decorated with ornamental penises and breasts. During the 1980s and '90s Lysgaard worked with organic fabulations that often had an erotic character, e.g., phalluses, breasts or sperm patterns. These works are characterized by great élan, calling to mind Northern European Neo-Vitalist art from the first three decades of the twentieth-century.