Sun Yat Sen Park, Keokea
Sadly, this Edit Pick is in memoriam. Dragon junk can still be seen in Iao Valley, but its Keokea counterpart has been castrated. This Upcountry park is home to a standing statue of its namesake—Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen—but is hallmarked by two large, faux stone lions (and two little ones flanking the park’s entrance, too). Rather promiscuously poised over a large sphere, the mauka-most lion inspired a little Project Mayhem in some anonymous sculptor, and the statue long-boasted a cleverly crafted pair of clay “fruits” of the loom. Conspicuous yet camouflaged, it required close inspection to see that these family jewels (and then some) were a pottery prankster’s addition. But when last I traversed to Sun Yat-Sen Park, I was dismayed to find these dragonballz had been scraped clean off. Neutered, the poor fellow looks nearly as desiccated as the drought-choked park, where the fig tree has no fruit and where should be peaches are but pits. @anuheayagi
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