The Cask of Amontillado, Reinterpreted.

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I forgot to get the name of the artist who had this installation set up at Shoparooni this past weekend. But whoever you are, I appreciate you.

What exactly is a hole in the floor toilet? I mean, I get it, but I don't really....

From the NY Times....

Art Hoax Unites Europe in Displeasure

The piece, an enormous mosaic installed in the European Council building over the weekend, was meant to symbolize the glory of a unified Europe by reflecting something special about each country in the European Union.

But wait. Here is Bulgaria, represented as a series of crude, hole-in-the-floor toilets. Here is the Netherlands, subsumed by floods, with only a few minarets peeping out from the water. Luxembourg is depicted as a tiny lump of gold marked by a “for sale” sign, while five Lithuanian soldiers are apparently urinating on Russia.

So what I don't understand here is how this giant 8 ton thing got INSTALLED without anyone saying anthing....