The worlds of arts and baseball collided violently yesterday when news broke that the Milwaukee Brewers will erect a statue of MLB Commissioner Bud Selig outside Miller Park.
"Sculpture and statue have been my life," said Eros Montoya III, a renowned master of bronze and other malleable metals.
"But I can honestly say that I have not lived until learning of the prospect of working on the Selig project. I feel like I am taking my first breaths only now -- like a newborn nestled in a post-delivery plastic basin, recently toweled off by the nurses and staring at the lights."
Eschewing the temptation to memorialize Selig in a neoclassical design, Montoya has chosen to "capture the man as he lived."
In particular, Montoya said his early sketches have focused on Selig as Congressional witness.
"It is a delightful area of inquiry for me, and I wonder what hidden messages the Commissioner transmitted with his index finger? Was this a code for another witness -- such as the Adonis-like slugger Jose Canseco -- to shut up? Or was it just a natural, human response to the dry air in the overcrowded hearing room? Using my hands and tools to try and answer these riddles literally keeps me up at night. It's why I do what I do."
A seven-foot tall Bud Selig... They ought to work that into the plot of "Lost."
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