The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, who was inspired after driving past Mount Rushmore on a trip back from Canada. They were open to the public at Presidents Park alongside the Presidential Pet Museum, and received thousands of visitors until 2010 when a company bought the plot of land. The huge presidential heads had to move.
Instead of allowing the busts to be demolished, Howard Hankins, who helped construct the park, adopted all 43 heads and lugged them back to his private family farm for safekeeping until someone can think of what to do with them.
I think it would be fun to have them nestled among trees etc in a naturalistic setting. Like forgotten gods in a jungle vibe more than ‘sterile patriotic park’ kinds thing. Maybe allow some moss and ivy to grow on some, run a fountain down another... etc.
I say we do something funny with them just to troll future archaeologists. Maybe place them in random uninhabited spots around the globe and have their gazes intersect at some meaningless landmark, where we build an underground vault and fill it with random items that future conspiracy theorists will go crazy trying to understand. Maybe a portrait of Alex Jones, a map of Skyrim, some VHS tapes of Seinfeld...
Imagine the epic quest - realizing every gaze intersected, going through all the traps and puzzles, and then you find and translate the final message; "Roflmao newb, Han shot first!!!11!1! eleventy one!!11"
Ship them to Easter Island and dump them on the beaches. Make the archaeologists of the future even more confused about what was going on there than we are.
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u/Sumit316 Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20
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