Who Picked A Park To Put A Giant Nose? 'Mystery' Statue Baffles Cleveland

Apparently, no one knows why a nose popped up in Hart Crane Park.

But someone picked the green space in the Flats to set it up, without explanation.

Canalway Partners, the organization that aims maintain parks and preserve historic local sites, took to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon (March 2) to seek answers after finding a nose-like sculpture — one that even looks like it includes nostril hairs — left on the site.

“Hey Cleveland Twitter: this fine piece of art showed up at Hart Crane Park recently and we'd like to make sure it didn't wander from its home,” Canalway Partners tweeted. “Got any ideas?”

Canalway Partners Executive Director Mera Cardenas emailed the Cleveland Scene, that the organization still has no idea what the sculpture is or who left it there: “It really is a mystery!”

“I don’t know if it’s a high school prank. I don’t know if it’s a sculpture. I don’t know if it’s a piece of a Mardi Gras float. I’m not really sure what it is. But it just made me laugh," Cardenas told News 5 Cleveland, which noted that the nose is 8 feet tall, yet light in weight.

Canalway Partners added in a tweet late Tuesday:

“When this piece showed up at Hart Crane Park (named after local poet Hart Crane), it reminded us how art can provide a tangible sign of hope (and fun) as we begin to emerge from the grip of a pandemic.”

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