A Los Angeles Bureau Moves A Famous Piece Without Consulting The Artist – Who Says It’s No Longer A Work Of Art

On the other hand, if they hadn’t moved “Vermonica,” who knows what might have happened? “We were recently contacted by the property management at that strip mall and we were told that [the lamps] needed to be removed — I think, because they are redesigning the parking lot or there will be construction going on there. … The timeline sped up because one day they started doing some work over there and they called and said, ‘We need to have two lights removed immediately.’ Our sense of urgency was to protect and preserve the streetlights so that they wouldn’t be damaged or removed by someone other than us.”