\u201cFor something like this, it doesn\u2019t necessarily matter, but sometimes the unintended consequences can be more inappropriate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apply these things and we don\u2019t necessarily understand as a society sometimes what the consequences might be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auckland Transport estimates 32,000 Aucklanders commute along Dominion Rd a day, passing the art piece Boy Walking.<\/p>\n
When approached for comment by Stuff, Google did not elaborate on the recent change but provided some more context on the company\u2019s privacy procedure.<\/p>\n
Boy Walking is likely to remain faceless as Google says facial obscurement decisions are permanent.<\/p>\n
Situated at the corner of Dominion Rd and Balmoral Rd, the public art piece is seen by an estimated 32,000 Kiwis a day as they pass through the intersection on the way to work and school.<\/p>\n
It has become infamous in the past six years and even inspired a hate account followed by nearly 4000 Instagram users.<\/p>\n
At the time of its unveiling, van Hout said the 5.6m Boy Walking was intended to represent the local community.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn literal terms, this is an 11 or 12-year-old child, but it could be anyone\u201d, he said, \u201cwe\u2019re all constantly becoming. We\u2019re always learning. Always moving forward\u201d.<\/p>\n
Described by arts writer Charlotte Huddleston as \u201cthe joker in New Zealand contemporary art\u201d, van Hout\u2019s work tends towards the weird and wacky.<\/p>\n
His sculpture Quasi, a rendering of a hand imprinted with his own face, was reviled by Wellingtonians when it was installed above the City Gallery in 2019.<\/p>\n
But the Kiwi artist was unaffected by the backlash, telling the Guardian last year he considered the controversial work a success.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople had strong views about it and I guess that\u2019s probably the essence of art \u2013 being open to everybody\u2019s different interpretations and the love and the hate that people had for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor something like this, it doesn\u2019t necessarily matter, but sometimes the unintended consequences can be more inappropriate,\u201d he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,351,20133,6534,1558,4924,15117,96063,61585,17751,3072,1872,367,42,6048,96062,43,1118,9615,1314,6047,40,38,41,39,96064],"class_list":["post-141738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-and","tag-apple","tag-attention","tag-automation","tag-been","tag-blur","tag-boy","tag-censored","tag-consequences","tag-dominion","tag-drawing","tag-face","tag-google","tag-headlines","tag-makaurau","tag-makauraus","tag-news","tag-of","tag-piece","tag-road","tag-tmaki","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unintended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}