SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – In the fashion of pop-up art, a nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hill on Christmas Day and collapsed. the next day.
The three-sided tower, held together by the roof and decorated with rubber drops, delighted the city on Friday when its existence was announced.
During her morning run, Ananda Sharma told KQED-FM he went up to Corona Heights Park to watch the sunrise when he saw what he thought was an important message. He said he smelled the gingerbread before he realized what it was.
“It simply came to our notice then. I wonder who did it and when they put it on, ”he said.
People walked to the park all day, even when a light rain fell on the ephemeral object of edible art. In a video posted online, someone took a bite of gingerbread.
Phil Ginsburg, head of the city’s Recreation and Parks department, told KQED that the site “looks like a great place to bake in the oven” and confirmed that its staff will not remove the monument “until the cookie collapses.” “.
It did so Saturday morning, the fitting end of what was surely a tribute to the discovery and rapid disappearance of a gleaming metal monolith in the Utah red rock desert last month. It became a topic of worldwide fascination as it evoked the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” and sparked speculation about its mundane origins.
The still anonymous creator of the monument in Utah did not get permission to plant the empty stainless steel object on public land.
A similar metal structure was found and quickly disappeared on a hill in northern Romania. Days later, another monolith was discovered on top of a track in Atascadero, California, but was later dismantled by a group of youths, city officials said.