Wearing Flowers in Your Square!!
Are they sure it was 70,000 Chrysanthemums that they laid in Albert Sq. for pay-per-view? Was it not 69,999? Can they do a re-count? Great for ‘guess the number of flowers’ competition. Who’s paid for this? Us, as in Man City Council? Arts Council? Save the Beetroot Chrys’s?
The best view was from inside the Town Hall of course.
Lay a lawn in the middle of Manchester and put a pretty pattern of Chrysanthemums from an old textile design and what do you get? News coverage! But, what’s it for?
It’s to promote Jo Vickers, who’s an artist and senior art lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and she has a business in wedding and events flowers called “Spectacular Space”. A great advertising publicity stunt. And just to stop anyone thinking about the environmental implications of pollution in transporting the things, they will be composted for recycling. Deep Purple is a rock band.
Did anyone pay a pound to go up scaffolding to see the view from above? Me neither! I hung around to see if someone would, but it remained empty. I did see an elderly couple coming down the steps, but I think they were looking for the toilets.
If Manchester City Council asked me, I would have told them how to make some money and get the publicity. Ditch the dead heads and put a few holes in it! 9 to be precise. Then charge £3 a time to business people who want to improve their putting on their lunch break, but wait until the warm weather comes.
It’s a girlie thing, yuk.
Now, if she did it as a Manchester United logo then I would respect her turf. Even volunteer to cut her grass, feed & weed the lawn and talk to the flowers to stimulate healthier blossoming. Then picnic and sun bathe in the rain and then build a 9 hole putting course around it.
Fore!