A gentleman in Santa Rosa has staged a funny little art installation in protest of being forced by the city (via a neighbor's complaint) to lower a six-foot-high fence he'd just installed down to three feet.
As the Associated Press reported, Jason Windus of Santa Rosa posed a group of five mannequins around a table in his yard last week along with a note for the "nosey neighbor" who complained about his fence. Windus said he only put in the fence so that he could let his dogs run around in his yard, and it was just as high as many others in the area. But the city received this complaint and apparently singled him out.
So, up went the naked mannequins in protest. "They wanted me to tear down my fence to see inside my yard, and now they get to," Windus told the AP.
And then on Friday, ABC 7 reported that two of the female mannequins were stolen. Windus tells the station that the "guard" mannequin, upon whom he'd put an army helmet, didn't seem to deter the thieves.
Three of the five mannequins remain in the display, and the City of Santa Rosa has yet to comment on the matter.
Trouble at the #mannequin garden party in Santa Rosa.
— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) March 22, 2019
What is wrong with this first picture from curator Jason Windus?
Two female mannequins are missing.
"Stolen," he says, "because the fence is too low. I put in a guard but that didn't help."
All we need on a Friday.#abc7now pic.twitter.com/iK4EoEaITN
SFGate: Two naked mannequins stolen from yard of Santa Rosa home involved in fence protest https://t.co/w22slnnpIV pic.twitter.com/huvAV2ShYU
— Inside the Bay Area (@insidebayarea) March 23, 2019