FINE ARTS LOVERS WING IT AS THEY LOSE THEIR HEADS

By Juan Montoya
Heads rolled today as the "Tres Cabezas Colosales" by Mexican artist Javier Marin said goodbye to Brownsville after a stay of about a year and a half.
But they aren't rolling far. They are being transported via truck to the grand opening this Friday Sept. 12 in collaboration with South Padre Island.
The three giant sculptures of heads will go on display in the median adjacent to the Queen Isabella Memorial Park on Friday, Sept. 12.These works, apparently, aren't the only ones flying out of Brownsville to other destinations. The "Wings of the City" exhibit by the same artist flew off to Houston where the sculptures will be exhibited.
To be perfectly truthful, I never quite figured out what the colossal heads were supposed to mean, other than perhaps some Greek or Roman gods losing their heads up in Olympus somewhere. But it was, well, interesting.
The "Wings" exhibit, on the other hand, was easier to fathom, something about man's flight of fancy. We're sure that the residents of these other cities will be thrilled to see these works by Marin. But we imagine that they, too, someday, will lose their heads when they fly off somewhere else.