Whipped Cream Difficulties

Rachel Owens is looking for money to purchase wrecked Hummers.

Placed in Manhattan’s Dag Hammarskjold Park — Gateway to the UN and designated site for international protests — the piece will be composed of the crashed hummers piled atop one another in a junk-yard heap. Welded together in a monumental pyramid-shaped stack and sprayed with opalescent icy-white auto body paint, the piece will also evoke the form of an iceberg.

But wait, there’s more! She also plans to install a stereo system!

…instead of the hip-hop as heard in the city or the heavy metal soundtrack many soldiers use as a way to “psych” themselves up, the moody songs of whales and crashes of calving glaciers will emanate from the speakers – the haunting sounds acting as a cry for everyone. In accordance with this soundtrack, the headlights of the cars will be set to dim and brighten.

If you’d like to help Ms. Owens out, her Kickstarter project has five days to go. However, she’s raised (as of this writing) $17,111, and only needed $15,000 for the project, so don’t feel obligated.

How can you resist this offer at the $5,000 level, though? Pledge that much money and you’ll get

a large original piece from my series, “Skulls” (retail value $6,000) that are represented in many major collections world-round. The piece is made of a real cow skull encrusted in broken glass.