Tiree: £90K wasted on Art or "We could have had a swimming pool"

On Tiree there is this by the ferry terminal:

Modern Art at the Tiree Ferry Terminal

It is an art installation - and it is not aging gracefully.

"Can you guess how much it cost?" asked one of the islanders
"100K?",
"Close, it was ninety thousand pounds - we could have had something for the kiddies but no we had to have this art thing"

It is all getting a bit decayed and manky inside

But most of all it blocks a view like this...

  

...with this

The owner of the cottage spent her last three years, on oxygen, dieing from emphysema, sitting in her front room staring at two slabs of concrete instead of Traigh Mohr:

Prints of this image are for sale at http://www.hebrideanmagic.com/traigh_mhor_tiree.htm


From the web:

 "An Turus is an award winning arts project, based at the ferry port. The building won the prestigious “Scottish Building of the Year” award in 2003."



"and was designed, as a place to shelter from the elements whilst waiting on the local ferry arriving."

There is a perfectly good heated waiting room at the ferry port - and a shop that does hot snacks. 


Here is a review (warning you will need a sick bag) I suppose the problem is that architects, like lawyers, are very-clever-people and money is always going to flow their way.



There is a whole, high cost, industry set up around such works of art - some works work (Mr Gormley for example) but most do not.