What's that crazy image?

Those are statues in Vancouver, Canada, and created by a Chinese artist.  Strangely enough, there are comments on you-tube which claim these are somehow 'anti-Asian'!  I found them really nifty so I snapped them and built the image with 'The GIMP'.

From the article in The Province...

"A-maze-ing Laughter, the massive bronze sculpture by Beijing-based artist Yue Min-jun that has delighted English Bay patrons for two years, will stay in Vancouver - if $1.5 million can be raised to keep it here.

Under a special arrangement with the artist, the price of the sculpture has been reduced from $5 million.

The non-profit, temporary-art exhibition Vancouver Biennale has until the end of August to raise the money, according to the event's director of marketing and business development, Miriam Blume.

The deal would require the 14 statues, which are 2.5-metres tall and weigh 250 kilograms each, to remain on public display and not be sold to anyone else.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Laughing+statues+stay+price/5971304/story.html#ixzz1j6NKbq51"