SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- On Monday, crews began dismantling a giant metal sculpture of a naked woman that had spent the past 18 months towering over the plaza across from the San Francisco Ferry Building. The art piece, which was just renamed from "R-Evolution" to "I Am," was initially supposed to be there for six months.
After two subsequent extensions, the sculpture spent a year and a half on the SF waterfront, greeting arriving SF Ferry and BART passengers with its languid, open-palmed stance. However, as the statue began to come down this week, not everybody was sorry to see it go.
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"Good riddance. Ugly as sin and creepy," said one commenter on a Reddit thread.
"I was conflicted about this," wrote another. "I loved that it filled a space, but I hated the art itself."
"Yes I'm kind of sick of the recycled Burning Man art," said another, about the 45-foot-tall installation, which originally debuted at Burning Man back in 2015.
"Oh thank god. That thing was hideous," wrote another.
Although not all the social media comments were negative. Some commenters on Reddit appeared to like the piece and seemed sorry to see it go.
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"Bummer, I really liked it, we need more public art like this," wrote one.
"I thought it was a very cool installation," said another. "Saw it all the time going to work."
"I loved it and thought it fit the space well, but it was never meant to be permanent," remarked another.
The sculpture, which was created by Bay Area artist Marco Cochrane, was part of San Francisco's Big Art loop project, which features 100 sculptures along a 34-mile "trail" around the city. After its removal, it will be available for sale or lease, according to Cochrane's website.
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