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Twentynine Palms, California: Foreign Body (Gone)

A giant woman impaled by a log sits atop a shipping container that sells veggie hot dogs. Removed in July 2022.

Directions:
12 miles east of town, on the north side of Amboy Rd, across from The Palms restaurant.
Hours:
Removed in July 2022.
Status:
Gone

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Foreign Body

No longer there.

[Gary Berkson, 09/29/2023]

Foreign Body.

Foreign Body

The sculpture is located on Amboy Road, at the corner of Palm Road, across from The Palms restaurant.

[Monica, 04/27/2022]

Built by Paloma Varga Weisz; sits atop a shipping container that sells veggie hot dogs, which the artist said was a tribute to roadside eateries with giant statues. Weisz told The Art Newspaper that the log-impaled woman symbolizes "nature going through a human being" and that, "It's important that it's absolutely not clear what's going on."


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