In the most literal sense it's horrifying. There are so, so, so many talented artists in the world. That's the best we can get? I'd be open to donating to a GoFundMe to get a replacement. Honestly if I were the artist I would have been embarrassed to release that.
Wade was too focused on the "moment". He could have just told the sculptor just based it on something easy and closest to my actual likeness. “If I wanted it to look like me, I’d just stand outside the arena and y’all can take photos,” Wade said Monday. “It don’t need to look like me. It’s the artistic version of a moment that happened that we’re trying to cement.” That moment was the end of a game against the Chicago Bulls in March 2009, when he made a shot to win at the buzzer of double overtime, hopped up onto a courtside table and yelled, “This is my house.” The position of his hands in the statue are reminiscent of that moment. But it’s the face that has generated almost all of the feedback. “I care, but I don’t,” Wade said. “The social media world is about opinions. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone, use y’all opinions. Please talk more about us. Talk more about a statue, come on down to see it, take some photos, send some memes. We don’t care.”
Wade is wrong. The statue is not about him or his "moments." It's about people remembering him in the future long after he is no longer around. Now people remember him as a laughing stock in allowing such a terrible looking thing to represent him.
It's sad, and I feel for him honestly. Do you think he had any say in it? Did he have veto power? Maybe he thought he couldn't? But yeah, even just 20 years from now, people will be like: "wow, we used to have some weird angry old man who played for us? LOL."
It sounds like he chose that look and approved alojgthe initial steps. Coz if not he could have stopped it or asked the sculptor to go in a different direction But he was too focused on his my house moment Now it looks an im homeless moment
Hahahah love it! If Wade approved this, he might have suffered brain damage from all the steroids and whatever else he took to get those cheeks.
But as Amrany recalled, when the Michael Jordan statute was publicly unveiled at a press conference on Nov. 1, 1994, it was not roundly greeted with praise. Rather, there were a number of initial complaints from the public and media over the way it portrayed Jordan’s face, including the decision to keep the Hall of Fame’s famously wagging tongue concealed behind his lips. “They didn’t like that his face wasn’t right off a cereal box,” said Amrany. “They didn’t want what (Jordan) said he wanted. And they didn’t know that, because they were not meeting him, they did not sit with him.” Mercifully, that experience long predated the era of social media and the current “world of algorithms,” as Amrany puts it. The peanut gallery is infinitely more critical and voluble in 2024. “I mean, after 20 articles (about Dwyane Wade’s sculpture) in the last three days,” Amrany said, “what you become is not famous, but infamous.” Source: Sportico
