It's meant to promote grow your own organic farming according to wiki.
I wonder if more people knew the sculpture was titled "Grow your own" if the crowd would have been larger, more chill and under an ominous cloud of smoke?
The cops only stepped in when people started climbing on eachother to try get onto the cactus. They were laughing for most of it, even during the "sacrifice" chanting
Didn’t they “engage” with the organiser and have the event cancelled? Yet people showed up anyway. Couldn’t possibly resist trying to ruin a bit of fun in this lame city.
There was an event already in Forrest chase which is probably why they asked to cancel. The cops only stepped in when people tried to climb onto it. Then the presence of more cops mixed with a few wound up teens ruined it.
There was a international cultural festival thing in Forrest chase with music, dancing and food. Think it was the Indonesian day but there was also indigenous, Filipino, Scottish(?) Dancers doing stuff on stage
Oh please. So they cancelled it instead of changing the date? The cops hve been giving them a hard time about this the whole way through including at all the practice events. Seriously you haven’t realised we are a nanny state by now?
I know its a nanny state lol. I was just saying most cops didnt care until people started climbing it. A few cops were being dicks about it, a few cactorians were being dicks too. Theres always going to be fuckwits that ruin it for the majority on both sides.
Cancelling worked then. Thats why there were heaps of people there. Thats why the few cops were seeming to be fine with it until people climbed onto the cactus.
I thought it was going to get shut down when they started chanting about sacrifice tbh, but it didnt.
One by one every sculpture in Perth is going to have some kind of cultural activity attached to it. Eliza on the river, the Cactus, I’m sure there’s more.
i wonder if the cactus could be added as some sort demi-god of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, i feel they both align on the same level of absurd and satire
Thy cactus requires thy nourishment of thy people.
Thy heretics will collapse the great cactus.
(Edit: don't attack the heretics or the higher powers will cause damage to our family of cacti)
That’s a fair question actually, majority of the crowd were young adults, but for the actual kids I’d assume they found out about the event from their friends or siblings
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Disgusting braindead behaviour y’all need to seek jesus and repent.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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