The box is plate steel. Tom Scott and his band of merry men at Scott Models took our design concept and created the stainless steel box and devised ways to make it structurally sound and safe. It raises both interest and pride in a job well done, and done after hours, and being part of a terrific civic event. We spent a good two weeks just trying to correct the deficiencies. On any lunch hour there are probably 50 of us sitting out in the park watching people watching the pigs.
People take time to really study it and to read the inscription.
It makes you laugh. It makes you think. This is the 134th in the series spotlighting a pig from the Big Pig Gig Public Art Project in downtown Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.