EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
Betoota council members have collectively agreed to invest in some more public art, after coming to the conclusion that the inner city district didn’t have enough confusing sculptures made from scrap metal.
It’s alleged this conversation transpired after the youngest council member, 29 year old Dean Wallace, realised that in order for Betoota to finally make it on the map as a ‘real city’, it would have to invest in some giant metal balls.
“The whole point of public art is for people to stare at it and go, ‘how much did this piece of shit cost?”, explains Dean.
“It’s what one would call, a ‘conversation starter.”
“Which is the whole point of art, no?”
Showing our reporter some sketches on his phone, Dean explains that they didn’t want to get too tricky with the designs.
“Someone suggested doing those dog sculptures, but we didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.”
“So after much consideration, we went with huge metal balls.”
Dean goes on to explain that these balls can be found in pretty much every major city in Australia, which is why it was so important for Betoota to get their very own set of big balls.
“Brisbane has the big ribbed ones.”
“Adelaide has those really shiny ones.”
“And Betoota will have two irregular sized balls.”
More to come.
