SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – In true pop-up style, a nearly 2-meter-high monolith made of gingerbread appeared mysteriously atop a San Francisco hill on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day.
The three-sided tower, joined by icing and decorated with some gums, charmed the city on Friday, when word of its existence spread.
During her morning run, Ananda Sharma told KQED-FM he climbed Corona Heights Park to watch the sunrise when he spotted what he thought was a large pole. He said he smelled gingerbread before he realized what it was.
“It made me smile. I wonder who did it and when they put it there, ”he said.
People walked to the park during the day, even with a light rain falling on the edible and ephemeral art object. In a video posted online, someone took a bite of gingerbread.
Phil Ginsburg, head of the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, told KQED that the site “looks like a great place to roast” and confirmed that his team will not remove the monument “until the cookie is crumbled”.
It happened on Saturday morning, a fitting ending to what was certainly a tribute to the discovery and rapid disappearance of a shiny metal monolith in Utah’s red rock desert last month. It has become a subject of fascination worldwide, as it evoked the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” and attracted speculation about its supernatural origins.
The still anonymous creator of the Utah monument did not get permission to plant the hollow stainless steel object on public land.
A similar metal structure was found and quickly disappeared on a hill in northern Romania. Days later, another monolith was discovered at the pinnacle of a trail in Atascadero, California, but was later dismantled by a group of young people, city officials said.