Perhaps local artist James Kelsey’s recent initiative to “donate” a sculpture downtown did not fail for lack of publicity or the down economy, but because of something much more simple — people didn’t like what they were buying.
Personally, I have never much cared for abstract art. It may mean I’m a simpleton, but the art I most enjoy looking at has easily recognizable objects such as people, animals or everyday items.
Taste in art is completely personal and subjective, however, so I could be dead-wrong, but I have a feeling that if the sculpture represented some part of Port Orchard’s past or present, such as Bremerton’s Lone Sailor or Poulsbo’s Viking, it may have garnered much more support.