Randall Gornowich is the man behind the massive pink flamingo that once stood outside Hampden’s Cafe Hon, helping make the cafe a Baltimore landmark.
When the cafe closed , the flamingo went down with it. Now, the local artist and photographer hopes it can rise again.
Gornowich has launched a campaign to “Give Baltimore the Bird” – more specifically, a “Flamingosaurus” statue for Hampden’s Roosevelt Park.
Randall GornowichIt would be a huge, pink flamingo sculpture – the same size as the Cafe Hon one – but surrounded by the silhouette of a more ferocious animal: a tyrannosaurus. The silhouette would have a channel inside with LED lights that will glow at night, Gornowich explained.
He’s driven by a personal mission, because he felt so connected to the fiberglass flamingo that was on The Avenue for so many years.
Gornowich said:
It was sad when it came down. It was very, very sad for me. I mean, it had been up for 20 years. how does that happen?