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The sculpture, on display at a resort in Antigua, is the work of artist Brendan Murphy, who is collected by everyone from Serena Williams to Warren Buffett, and wants to be the next Jeff Koons.
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The 22-foot, 3,000-pound, steel and carbon fiber spaceman, positioned arms up in a V inspired by a signature Michael Jackson pose, did not just land at the end of a pier at the Hodges Bay Resort in Antigua.
The site-specific sculpture, titled The Boonji Spaceman, required three days, 12 men and a crane and custom scaffolding to erect and mount in five feet of solid concrete all designed to withstand up to a Category 4 hurricane.
The commission is the result of a year-long endeavor between artist Brendan Murphy and Christopher Harding, an angel investor, and one of the hotel’s owners.
Mother still desperately searching for clues on son missing for almost four years
Roman Mussabekov went missing in May 2017, after vacationing in Antigua. His mother is holding on to the hope that he will still be found, despite being missing for so long.
Nearly four years after her son, Roman Mussabekov, went missing after vacationing in Antigua, Marina Bezborodova still remains hopeful that he will be found.
Mussabekov arrived in Antigua on May 15, 2017 and was staying in the Hodges Bay area, before reportedly taking a taxi to English Harbour the next day. According to his mother – who allegedly spoke with the taxi driver who transported her son – he disembarked close to the Antigua Yacht Club Marina.