A description of the Bench which is named "The Secret Bench of Knowledge."
-At first glance, it is a pair of children sitting on a bench; he is eating a bright red apple and whispering some thing in her ear; she is squirming, ever so slightly, perhaps at his words, perhaps because he is too close, or perhaps she just doesn’t like to sit still. The tourist brochures will tell you that the sculpture bears a message of the joy and value of reading.
The boy is holding an apple that has a bite missing. Clearly this is a reference to Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge. The sculptor is making the claim that the apple was good because it brought forth reason and discovery. First, too bad the Gnostics beat you to that claim thousands of years ago. Second, surely there was a less creepy version you could have created.
The original owners of the bench wanted to rid themselves of the monstrosity because in short it creeped them out. The worst part- Bonita Springs raised $57,000 to buy the thing. That's right- the place I am living spent $57,000 on a park bench while a shelter to help the poor has been repeatedly shot down because it might be an eyesore at the proposed location.
Terrifying.
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