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Weighing about 30 kilograms, this peregrine falcon didn’t just fly away.
Artist Christopher Griffin said Wednesday that one of three concrete sculptures of the regal birds that had been installed on the west side of the Dunbar Bridge on Bronson Avenue had vanished.
He discovered it was gone after getting an e-mail from a concerned citizen. Griffin than visited the site to find the stainless steel bracket that had mounted the bird to the bridge snapped off at the weld.
“Secured enough for Mother Nature but not for thieves,” the artist said in a social media post. “Please share with your Ottawa friends.”
Griffin said on the phone that the 91-cm sculpture was securely fastened and would be awkward to carry. Two others falcons were untouched.
Griffin produced the sculptures, paying for them out his own pocket, feeling they completed a mural he’d been contracted to create in the underpass below the bridge in 2014.
If it is an apparently bird-brained thief, it won’t be the first time one has plucked Griffin’s work.
In 2016, a metre-tall sculpture of a raven that was chained down outside his studio at Kent Street and Gladstone Avenue vanished overnight.
It reappeared, just as mysteriously, a week later.
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Artist Christopher Griffin said Wednesday that one of three concrete sculptures of the regal birds that had been installed on the west side of the Dunbar Bridge on Bronson Avenue had vanished.
He discovered it was gone after getting an e-mail from a concerned citizen. Griffin than visited the site to find the stainless steel bracket that had mounted the bird to the bridge snapped off at the weld.
“Secured enough for Mother Nature but not for thieves,” the artist said in a social media post. “Please share with your Ottawa friends.”
Griffin said on the phone that the 91-cm sculpture was securely fastened and would be awkward to carry. Two others falcons were untouched.
Griffin produced the sculptures, paying for them out his own pocket, feeling they completed a mural he’d been contracted to create in the underpass below the bridge in 2014.
If it is an apparently bird-brained thief, it won’t be the first time one has plucked Griffin’s work.
In 2016, a metre-tall sculpture of a raven that was chained down outside his studio at Kent Street and Gladstone Avenue vanished overnight.
It reappeared, just as mysteriously, a week later.
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