The Headington Shark
The owner of this house, Bill Heine, commissioned a shark sculpture to be built on his rooftop in 1986. When reports asked why, Bill said:
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“The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation…. It is saying something about CND, nuclear power, Chernobyl and Nagasaki.”
He later added, “That, and sharks are bloody cool!”
“The headless sculpture, with the label “Untitled 1986″ fixed to the gate to the house, was erected on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Created by the sculptor John Buckley, it is made of fiberglass, weighs four hundredweight, and is 25 feet long.”
via Headington.org
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