Michelle N. is sick of the crows that normally walk up and down San Francisco’s Fulton Street near where she lives as if they own it. So on Sunday morning she and her friend Ana S. took her dog, Butter, for a walk down to the Panhandle to get away from them.
“I’ve been noticing more crows in my life, and now this,” she said while staring in disbelief at two anatomically correct huge black crows cast in bronze standing on the grass, beaks open and seemingly cawing at each other. “Isn’t this crazy? Who read my mind?”
The answer is Jack Champion, a Cotati sculptor who put those one-ton crows, named Lucinda and Tom, in the park last week at the behest of the Big Art Loop, a privately funded civic campaign to get oversize works of art out of storage and into the public domain in the parks of San Francisco. The work is titled “An Attempted Murder,” playing off the collective noun for a group of crows, but it is also what Michelle N. was feeling when a reporter approached her to gauge her reaction.
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