If weird vibes are your thing, have we got a lonely, isolated, slightly menacing art installation for you!
You might just see all you need to see from Interstate 15, as you whizz by on your way to Vegas, but if you need a closer look, you’ll need to pick your way through the potholed back roads of Yermo, California.
At the park entrance you’ll be warned that you are being filmed, and that if you’re a communist you’d better not even THINK of entering the property.
Officially, Liberty Sculpture Park is a "non-governmental non-profit sculpture park memorializing the casualties of communist regimes, focusing on China and Hong Kong”
The handful of sculptures are dotted around acres of sandy terrain, but you can stay in your car and drive from one to the other if you’d rather not find a snake in your boot.
Thoughtfully, just between the army tank and the giant half man, half skeleton, you will also find shaded picnic tables.
At the end of the day, Liberty Sculpture Park is really expressing Chinese people’s desire to be free. Without context, the park is a bizarre oddity at the very least, but with a little research you will find that each sculpture is somehow representing the desire for freedom and happiness and we’re all in for that.
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Southern California No. 181 -last visited March 2024
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