🔗 Share this article Young Australian Faces Charges for Supposedly Placing Sticker Eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ Artwork Authorities stated they were unable to remove the eyes without harming the artwork. A teenager from Australia has faced legal proceedings after reportedly vandalizing a large blue sculpture of a legendary being by affixing googly eyes to it. The 19-year-old, 19 years old, appeared remotely at the local court in the state of South Australia on that day, facing with a single charge of damaging property. Officials commented at the time of the September incident, the municipal authorities explained that CCTV footage captured a individual placing artificial eyes on the sculpture, which locals have nicknamed the “Cast in Blue”. The accused made no plea and informed the judge she was ill, as reported by news outlets, with the judge advising her to secure a lawyer before her upcoming hearing in the final month of the year. The affected sculpture after the stickers were removed. The following day the alleged incident, the local mayor said that repairs to the popular community sculpture would be costly as the stickers were impossible to be removed without harming the art piece. “This intentional vandalism to a valued public artwork is unacceptable and disrespectful,” Mayor Lynette Martin said in September. “It is not harmless fun, it is pricey - it is also frustrating to those people of our society who have welcomed the Blue Blob.” The mayor added the council would seek the “significant” repair costs from those responsible for the vandalism. At the time the sculpture was first proposed, it drew varied responses from the local community due to its cost and design. Priced at 136,000 Australian dollars ($89,000; sixty-eight thousand pounds), the artwork represents a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture’s designers influenced by an ancient marsupial ant-eater found in nearby caverns that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”. Cast in Blue is its formal title but residents nicknamed the artwork the ‘Blue Blob’.