I had forgotten to feature this in the past and was clearing up my old as crap phone to try to make it faster (it didn't work - the end is nigh!) and found these pictures of an installment that was made in the Krabi public park (called Thara Park) and when I look at it, i dunno, i guess it is art. To me it just seems like an unnecessary use of plastic.

Yep, that's it. A giant nose floating in a pond in the middle of a park. That's art folks!

This piece was made by MAYRHOFER-OHATA, an artistic duo that I think are a couple (i guess it doesn't matter) and they do art installations in many locations around the world primarily in Venice, Paris, and Tokyo. I sometimes wonder how it is that people can make money doing this and often question whether I am simply not cultured enough to "get it."

I find it is bit strange that a community like Krabi, who already has a relatively massive problem with plastic waste in the waterways would commission someone to make a giant nose out of a relatively large amount of plastic and then put it in a body of water.

I'm not gonna try to be all SJW about this because I hate those guys but perhaps, once again, I just don't get it.

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According to the artists the meaning behind the piece is as follows
The myth-making object mainly addresses environmental issues, inviting the viewers to explore the artwork as a placeholder for reality. A nose sculpture keeps itself above the water. It is very simple but purified by contemplation, the winds of the heavens dance between heads and hearts. The project presents a nose imagined as a bridge between outside and inside, the edge where exchange happens, where something is breathing the breath of life. Even if one is deeply asleep or meditating at the highest level of the mind, one is always breathing. A living soul needs a mindful breath, there is a spirit who dwells in one’s soul: let it take you wherever it takes you.

Huh?