SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – In true pop-up art fashion, a nearly 6-foot (6-foot) gingerbread monolith mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day.
The three-sided tower, held together by glaze and decorated with a few drops of gum, made the city happy on Friday as news of its existence spread.
During his morning run, Ananda Sharma told KQED-FM he climbed to Corona Heights Park to watch the sunrise when he saw what he thought was a big pole. He said he could smell the gingerbread before he realized what it was.
It made me laugh. I wonder who did it, and when they put it there, ”he said.
People flocked to the park all day, even when light rain fell on the short-lived edible artifact. In a video posted online, someone took a bite of the gingerbread.
Phil Ginsburg, head of the city’s recreation and parks department, told KQED the site “looks like a great place to be baked” and confirmed that his staff will not remove the monument “until the cookie crumbles.”
It appropriately ended on Saturday morning, which certainly paid tribute to the discovery and rapid disappearance of a shiny metal monolith in the red rocky desert of Utah last month. It became a topic of fascination around the world as it sparked off the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” and sparked speculation about its alien origins.
The still-anonymous creator of the Utah monument was denied permission to plant the hollow, stainless steel object on public property.
A similar metal structure was found and quickly disappeared on a hill in northern Romania. Days later, another monolith was discovered at the peak of a trail in Atascadero, California, but it was later dismantled by a group of young men, city officials said.