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Monster of Monterey Surfaces in Santa Cruz!

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06/10/16

Monster of Monterey Surfaces in Santa Cruz!

The Monster of Monterey, recently installed at the north end of Pacific Street, is inspired by reports of a Loch Ness type monster sighed in the Monterey Bay and which washed ashore in the 1920s. The Monster of Monterey Bay (also called the Monster of Santa Cruz) washed up on Moore beach in 1925. Most reports support the idea that the animal had a long neck (possibly around twenty feet) and a tail (around three feet). Also at least three different reports compared the front of its head to a duck’s bill. Per the artist, Arnold Martin: “Plesiosauria Colomba domestica is inspired by the history, places and myths of Monterey Bay. Its humorous construction is taken from the 20th century stories of sea monsters found washed ashore. Its body is a larger than life pigeon skeleton combined with the tail, flippers and skull of a Plesiosaur suspended from the long boom of a luffing crane common to docks and ports. The sculpture is a hybrid built from disparate pieces just as myths are constructed from memories of everyday and unexplained experiences, fishing stories, and tall tales.”

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