People enjoy interacting with the Peacocks

In response to Armando Paz's letter on people sitting on the fiberglass peacocks around town and our take on people even using them as hitching posts for their dogs, we have received many emails and people have stopped us on the streets. One friend brought up the subject at Mad Men Monday, and they all agree that it's ok for people to interact with the birds.

One said that "children should be children" and that's what children do. Others felt that the whole purpose of art in public places is to interact with it. I may have to agree now. I can't say how many times I've seen that large bronze Hans Christian Anderson statue in Central Park in New York City with children crawling all over it and the statue almost seems like it's missing something when people are not interacting with it.

So the consensus is that the peacocks are there for people to enjoy, to sit on, to hook their dogs to, to be part of people's Grove experience. It all makes sense now. They are actually living art and they mean something to people. Guess it would be a sad thing if people just walked by and ignored them rather than adore them.