Seattle Rachel pig bronze sculpture

Rachel the swine was born in August 17, 1986, the American famous artist sculptor Georgia Gable, weighing 750 pounds, according to the Island County Fair 1985 champion pig bronze sculpture(named Rachel "Rachel") produced bronze animal sculpture. Noisy complex neighborhood market, it is embedded in the ground and engraved with text looking to the figure of Rachel pig's trotters India.
Seattle Rachel pigs this works a birth, to become one of the most Seattle residents welcome the public art, and the formation of a new city and cultural traditions. Rachel Pig's birthday each year as an opportunity, the city will hold a variety of celebrations, becoming the community's cultural festival. Rachel pigs also boosting the local tourism, it is prototyping a variety of souvenirs by the public and tourists alike. Sculpture artists still design a coin slot, Entertainment participatory way to raise funds, the Foundation annually by Rachel pigs raised to 6000-9000 U.S. dollars, nearly 10,000 low-income residents of the communities to the market to help. In a small bronze statue will be public, decorative, cultural elements of the perfect combination.

Japanese cartoon image of a city sculpture
In Japan, enjoys popular cartoon image become a few examples of huge sculpture made in china. Such as this statue stand in Daiei-cho, Tottori Prefecture Kudo town library in front of a statue. The statue, 1.74 meters high, and the characters of the same body size and lifelike expression, praised by the local community.
Daiei-cho is the author of "Detective Conan" Gosho Aoyama's birthplace. The local "hometown" of Detective Conan boasted wide publicity efforts to attract tourists to the revitalization of the village.