Spent a while trying to decide between this object and Mad Mark's Castle on the Albany Bulb. Ended up choosing this because Mark's Castle is rather famous and very well documented, while this object is more obscure and is therefore likely to appreciate my heartfelt fan letter.

In fact, this thing has such a small online presence that I initially though I'd discovered something that isn't on the internet. But, it turns out I was simply being stupid and had mixed up the words "statue" and "sculpture." This thing actually is online, albeit only in a brief obituary in an academic magazine nobody reads.

The object I chose is a piece of guerrilla art that was installed on the Berkeley campus a decade ago and survived for 3 years before it was destroyed. When I arrived, I found the pedestal on which it had been mounted now thoroughly covered with vines, so I tucked my note in amongst them. I'm 80% certain I chose the right pedestal. . . but it has been years since I saw the object, and I never paid too much attention to it until it was destroyed and it became known that no one knew where it came from.

UPDATE: One month later, and my note is still there. Whoever chose this pillar had quite an eye for a safe place to display things. One of these days, I'm going to have to go back and put something bigger on top of the pedestal in place of the virus statue.