Phallus road art?

Moonbiker
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edited July 2017 in Road general
Wenr for a 50 mile ride and saw a few random orange phalluses spray painted on obsure back roads.

Then noticed one on the side of someones Wheelie bin 30 miles from the last one i'd seen. :roll:

Reminded me of this:
Almost 50 years ago, while he was still a student at Central St Martins School of Art, the artist Richard Long embarked on a different kind of mapping: a bicycle ride from WC1 to Cambridgeshire. A photo of him about to set off shows a young, steely-eyed man carrying a rucksack and standing beside his road bike, a simple six-speed machine with mudguards and dropped handlebars. To the top tube of his bike were tied a bundle of sticks he would use to mark out his way and record his journey.

Long’s ride took him three days of largely nonstop cycling. He pedalled out of London, through Tring, Ely and Cambridge. He cycled along A-roads and canal towpaths, along country tracks and across muddy fields. At 16 locations along his route he drove one of his stakes into the ground. “Starting from the entrance of St Martins in London,” he later recalled, “and carrying the components of the sculpture strapped to my bicycle, I commenced a more-or-less continuous day-night-day-night cycle ride around the counties to the north of London, ending back at my flat in the East End. At random places and times along the way I left one part of the work at each place. Each consisted of a yellow-painted vertical piece of wood stuck into the ground, with a blue horizontal crosspiece at the top. They were left in gardens, on verges or village greens, in fields etc.” Near the location of each stake Long attached a notice that his mother had typed for him. The notice read: “This is one part of a piece of sculpture that surrounds an area of 2,401 sq miles. There are 15 other similar parts, placed irregularly.”

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