🔗 Share this article Young Australian Charged for Supposedly Placing Googly Eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ Sculpture The local council mentioned they could not take off the eyes without harming the artwork. A young person from the Land Down Under has appeared in court after allegedly defacing a sizable art piece of a legendary being by applying googly eyes to it. The 19-year-old, 19 years old, appeared remotely at Mount Gambier Magistrates Court in South Australia on that day, facing with a single charge of property damage. Officials commented at the time of the September incident, the local council explained that surveillance video captured a individual placing artificial eyes on the artwork, which residents have dubbed the “Blue Blob”. Ms Vanderhorst made no plea and informed the judge she was ill, as reported by news outlets, with the magistrate recommending her to find a lawyer before her upcoming hearing in December. The affected sculpture after the stickers were taken off. The following day the reported event, the city leader stated that repairs to the popular public artwork would be expensive as the stickers were impossible to be removed without harming the sculpture. “This wilful damage to a cherished public artwork is unacceptable and disrespectful,” City of Mount Gambier mayor remarked in mid-September. “It is not innocent amusement, it is costly - it is also frustrating to those people of our society who have welcomed Cast in Blue.” She said the local government would seek the “significant” restoration expenses from those accountable for the vandalism. When the artwork was first proposed, it drew mixed reactions from the local community due to its price tag and design. Priced at 136,000 Australian dollars ($89,000; sixty-eight thousand pounds), the sculpture represents a mythical megafauna, with the creators influenced by an prehistoric marsupial ant-eater discovered in local caves that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”. The sculpture is its formal title but locals called the piece the ‘Blue Blob’.