Alison CreeksideDec 6
Have you looked at that FIFA peace prize? It's rotting disintegrating hands shredding the planet.
Show threadJeremy Janzen Dec 7
@AlisonCreekside I was curious and found out tgat it is a miniature of the "Thoughts and Desires" sculpture in Geneva gifted to the UN by Azerbaijan.
https://indico.un.org/event/22300/ https://www.ungeneva.org/en/about/director-general/michael-moller/activities/2017/10/art-donation-thoughts-and-desires-republic
"Thoughts and Desires"

Organized by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Azerbaijan The Permanent Mission of Republic of Azerbaijan wishes to donate to the United Nations Office in Geneva an artwork entitled “Thoughts and Desires”, by the Azerbaijan artist Ali Ibadullayev and Salhab Mammadov to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its membership in the United Nations.

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Show threadAlex S.Dec 7

@jeremyjanzen @AlisonCreekside
Here is a photo of the sculpture “Thoughts and Desires”. As one can see, the hands reaching for the earth were not as much rotten eight years ago, than they are now.
https://prestigebelle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/un-hq-thoughts-desires.jpg (0.1MB)

HiRes albeit worse lighting:
https://indico.un.org/event/22300/images/2290-DSC_0427updV.jpg (11MB)

Show threadAlison Creekside
@alex_mastodon @jeremyjanzen
Yeah I had a look too. The Azerbaijan original is granite and bronze and quite lovely and lacks the added rotting flesh zombie bits of Trump's gold copy.
Hope the original artists got royalties on the FIFA copy.
Dec 7 at 1:24pmWeb