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The sculpture of Canadian jazz icon Oscar Peterson in downtown Ottawa has been vandalized, and in a fashion that suggests the defacement may be intended more as message than as random destruction.
Tears have been painted onto the eyes of the sculpture, set outside the National Arts Centre at the northeast corner of Elgin and Albert streets. The tears were painted with gold paint onto the dark patina of the bronze figure. Apart from a few stray drops of gold paint that dribbled into Peterson’s mouth and also landed on his jacket, there is no other disfigurement to the large, 600-kilogram figure.
Peterson was an internationally acclaimed musician, and one of his many hits was titled Gentle Tears. It’s conjecture to suggest that whoever painted the tears on Peterson intended them as a comment on a social issue, though it’s not implausible. Peterson was black, and if the tears are indeed a social comment, the likely subject would be the simmering racial tensions over the shooting death by police of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Tears have been painted onto the eyes of the sculpture, set outside the National Arts Centre at the northeast corner of Elgin and Albert streets. The tears were painted with gold paint onto the dark patina of the bronze figure. Apart from a few stray drops of gold paint that dribbled into Peterson’s mouth and also landed on his jacket, there is no other disfigurement to the large, 600-kilogram figure.
Peterson was an internationally acclaimed musician, and one of his many hits was titled Gentle Tears. It’s conjecture to suggest that whoever painted the tears on Peterson intended them as a comment on a social issue, though it’s not implausible. Peterson was black, and if the tears are indeed a social comment, the likely subject would be the simmering racial tensions over the shooting death by police of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
More to come . . .
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