"Symbols are power. They shape reality."
~ Saul Alinsky
~ Saul Alinsky
My first reaction to "Fearless Girl" being moved was anger - so I looked into it.
In 1989, Arturo Di Modica spent $360,000 of his own money to cast a 7000 pound bronze bull and drop it outside the NYSE as guerilla art. It was a gift to the American people after the crash - meant to show strength, not submission.
Then "Fearless Girl" showed up - framing the bull as something to resist, not rally behind.
She was relocated, but to stand directly in front of the NYSE, confronting a literal seat of financial power, without rewriting someone else's message.
That said .. it is/was an amazing image.
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