Well you don’t see that every day.
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MOTORISTS and pedestrians in Toledo, Ohio, got the shock of their lives when a big red ball broke free from its mooring and bounced and rolled down city streets.
“It started pouring rain, so the ball was wet and slippery”, Garrow told ABC News. “It made its way partially down the street before people caught up with it”. The deflated ball was then put into a trailer by art handlers for fix, she said.
Somehow – even though it rolled over a couple cars – the only thing that was damaged was a street sign.
Intrepid Ohioans can catch the ball (as it were) at Boyd’s Retro Candy Store on Phillips Avenue today, according to the museum’s website, then at Side Cut Metropark tomorrow and back at the museum on Sunday.
The ball has been on the move throughout the city for the last seven days, being placed in different locations, bringing attention to different places around the city.
The giant ball was secured to a vehicle on Thursday out of caution, Garrow added.
The project is part of the museum’s exhibition “Play Time”, organized by Halona Norton-Westbrook, the museum’s associate curator of contemporary art, along with associate director Amy Gilman. Kurt Perschke, the sculpture’s artist, said that he didn’t intend for the ball to let loose, but is happy that no one was hurt.
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Perschke, the artist behind the red ball project, has been traveling the world for 15 years-placing this ball in alleys and anywhere it will fit. “We’re glad it all worked out”. “However, like a boat with lots of sail and no rudder, it can really move in high winds”.
