what a great installation, reminds me of one of my hungarian friends, who did a piece where the biggest bill in the country was made by an insane number of the country’s smallest coins.

that time it was not an artwork with a permission, so they super-glued all the coins, looking like a film crew while they did it. and then they dissapeared.

the money were there for a while - thanks to the glue they were very hard to get off - but unfortunately there were people poor enough to invest the time and effort to scrape the small coins of the big bill.

as for your piece and the role of the police there is a very clear rationale behind the police’s decision to remove the artwork.

lazyness.

when someone calls the police they are obliged to show up, so they want to make sure that it happens only once. and in the process send a signal to the city that they don’t want to have that kind of mess in their neighborhood. who wants to spend time on imagination when there are real criminals out there?

that’s my guess.

great piece. next time - call the police and tell them not to worry. better yet, make a lawyer explain to them why.