Full story at artnet.com
From the article:
“He was and remains a testament to the virtues of resilience and self-reinvention,” the petition reads. “It was not Flaco’s fault that someone cut a hole in his enclosure. Drawn to the sights and sounds of the city he had only imagined for the first 13 years of his life, he ventured out and learned why he had wings. We will all miss him (we do not speak for the rats, who surely will tell terrifying tales of his fearsome talons to future generations).”
The petition asks the New York City Council to commission a pedestal with a branch protruding and a life size Flaco statue perched upon it, located near the tree across from the compost in the northwest quadrant of the park where he roosted most often.
I'd definitely go visit it.
As long as it isn't some bizarre interpretation of an owl...
I'm going to Pittsburgh this weekend (owl related business!) and there is a Mr Rogers statue, but it's this scary lumpy thing that has a recording of children's disembodied voices playing on loop! 😧
I'll put this terrifying golum under a spoiler tag so people aren't forced to look at it in this thread about a beautiful owl...
His college can get a nice statue with the puppets and the Land of Make Believe, but the city gets the other one.
Now that's a tribute!