The only thing appropriate about this public art installation seems to be its location. It shows two fishermen carrying oars and preparing to take their fishing boat to the sea. It is ouside the Machhimar colony in Mahim, opposite Mahim Koliwada and the sea. It is 11 ft high and weighs some 1500 kg.
It is too garish red, everything is red, the fishermen from head to foot, their clothes, the oars and the boat. One gets a glimpse of it on the left when one passes by a vehicle from Bandra to Mahim but can see properly only if one is walking.
Mumbai is being increasingly uglified. High rise buildings are major culprits. While walking along a street all you see at eye level are ugly car parks, one set above another or a blank wall stares at you.
Similar is the case with so called Covid Warriors memorial recently put at the traffic junction of HP petrol pump and Bandra Talkies put up by the Rotary Club of Mumbai airport.
It is supposed to be a tribute to doctors, nurses, industrial workers, policemen and the sanitation workers all in mono colours, the entire body, dress all of same colour,, quite ugly looking. The doctor with stethoscope is all in blue colour, nurse in dull green, worker in saffron, police in yellow.
Mumbai is being increasingly uglified. High rise buildings are major culprits. While walking along a street all you see at eye level are ugly car parks, one set above another or a blank wall stares at you. The human interaction is completely gone.
