Words fail me. I cannot attempt to explain the field of concrete corn. Although there is a good historical explanation on the placards next to the field (which I did not photograph). I was warned about it beforehand, but when I came upon the concrete field of corn, I was amazed and astounded that such a thing existed. (Columbus , Ohio)

It's hard to get a sense of size and scale from these pictures - but the ears of corn were taller than me - probably 6 to 7 feet high. When my coworkers told me about the concrete field of corn, I was expecting concrete corn plant sculptures or corn growing out of a paved concrete lot or something like that. I never expected GIANT EARS of concrete corn. Pretty weird. Lomo pics coming later this week.

Hey! Imagine just stumbling upon photos of the beloved corn statues. I live in the Columbus area and will never forget moving here in '93 and first driving by the corn...

I can't wait to see this corn in person. I have waited so long and will be going quite soon. I first saw a picture of this corn five years ago in a guide book of Columbus and since I live so far away I have not been able to see it yet. But this year I will get to see it, Finally!!!

this is the greatest thing on earth! concrete corn! i love it!!! that is where i am going to live, in a feild of concrete corn! I LOVE IT! BA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA**
i am going to get in my love boat and drive down there and i am going to go take a picture of the brilliant statues of CORN! BA HA HA HA HA HA****

I dont know why you guys talk about those things like they're so exciting. It just goes to show how stupid the city of Dublin really is. They spent 80k on a field of concrete corn to preserve Ohio's agricultural past. I'm sure we all remember that Ohio is and was based on livestock and crops of most anything you could grow in this climate. All those things really do is give the kids around here something to vandalize every year for a prank (i.e. covering them in white trash bags).

When I drive by it every day, I laugh. I have frolicked in the Field of Corn before and I must say, it's quite entertaining. The fake Dublin Wendy's ads weren't enough...so they built giant ears of cement corn. As for the vandalizing, when the field was brand new, they told us that there was a special coating or something on the corn so that vandalization wouldn't be an issue.

I am a big fan of that corn, and its actually quite an amazing. As a resident of Dublin, you would be very surprised about how not-that-area the corn is, that area is very snobby and upper class. Those Wendy's ads are a frickin disgrace, and were made way after the corn. There are rumors about there being something that detects vandalism on the corn, so none of us H.S kids even try to vandalize it.

omg, i am ashamed to live in ohio

I live in dublin and no matter how many times i see this monstrosity of dublin i laugh.I can't belive that the city actually spent tons of TAX dollars to get this done, the funneist part is each kernnel on the corn is suposed to be unikly diffrent(belive me i can't tell the diffrance between one or the other). Yet no matter how much i hate this undeverative peice of______, affter i get my icecream from a grates near by me and my friends bike back to the satues, and let me tell you running screamming through a feild of concrete corn is very fun.

I can only live vicariously through my friends Laura, Deb and Doma. Well, they're not exactly my friends. But I did meet them once. Or more correctly, I was in the same building as they were. I think I might have waved. Anyway, I've digressed. When I heard they they too would frolick through the corn I was very envious. Why can't I ever catch a break? Maybe someday I too can make the sacred pilgrimage to fulfill my wildest dream: To have my picture taken with concrete corn. That's up their with my photo of me & Weird Al Yankovic.

I was raised in Dublin, and honestly cant figure out why Dublin wastes so much money on things! If you dont think the corn is a waste enough, than read on....When the Corn was first put up my whole school took a feild trip to see it...if my memory serves me correctly all of dublin schools took a feild trip to see the next wonder of the world!

I grew up in Dublin during the time (70s) that the town really transformed itself from a small, rural place into a swanky suburb. I remember my mother, whenever it came up that we lived in Dubline, always adding that we'd lived there since the 60s to help distinguish from the typical Dublin snobs :)

My parents still live there, so I get a chance to revisit the corn a couple times a year. For some unexplained reason reason I can't help but have a fondness for Dublin, and I catually like the corn and most of the other "Art in Public Places" series.

You can see the list of works at:
http://www.dublinarts.org/onview/publicart.html

In particular, I like "Going, Going, Gone" and "Leatherlips"

Please do visit the dublin arts website...the one piece that really grabs me, particularly as a taxpayer here in Dublin, is titled "Watch House." It looks like a bronzed Dorothy's cabin from the Wizard of Oz witha a giant golf ball jammed into the roof. It straddles a bridge over an opening in a mocked-up Indian Mound, apparently an homage to the Adena/Hopewell mound builders in pre-historic Ohio. But the real beauty, what makes this a profound pilferage of public funds, is that you can't see this "Art in Public Places" from the street! Trees and an impassable creek shield it from the rear, and the Indian Mound nearly totally obscures it from the street! That, my friend, separates the Picassos from the card-playing dogs...BRAVO!