Artist Marley Dawson confronts criticism on Albury's Big Log

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00:00 anything put into the public realm, we'll have a sort of conversation around it. I think, you know,

00:04 I know the article you were talking about. I guess the response is, my response would be,

00:12 come and have a look, read what it is before having your online chat, you know.

00:25 And you know, I think public art is always diversive. There's people that love it and

00:30 people that hate it, people that don't think it's worth it, you know, all that sort of stuff.

00:35 I think there's something to think about in that though, that should we only have nice things once

00:41 everything else is perfect? Because if we're looking to have perfect roads forever, we're

00:45 never going to have anything. We're never going to have a public artwork, we're never going to

00:48 have swimming pools, we're never going to have, you know, nice gardens. If you're trying to get

00:53 everything perfect before you can have nice things, I think it's going to be a hard road and a hard

00:59 sell.