The Hippy | Part 2
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The Toronto International Sculpture Symposium took place in 1967 and there were about 9 sculptors from different parts of the world. And this was sculpture being made over the summer period.
People were coming to High Park at that time to watch us. There was a little lady that came up to me and asked me what I was doing. And I said I was making a monument to the hippies. And she said, "Oh well, the cops won't be able to take that one away". And this was a general sort of public event. Then I had a whole bunch of hippies that came from Florida. They had seen the "The Hippie" in progress in the newspaper and they came up to have a look at it. And so it was a public from all walks of life were through there.
Some people objected, and some people thought I should go to jail because I was supporting the hippies. I felt probably I was daring at that time. But once it got going and the public came and the press came to even photograph, and I had quite a lot of interviews with the media, I felt not so much an outsider. I felt at home, I felt that this was in harmony with what I wanted to do.
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