A street artist named Plastic Jesus constructed and left a fake Oscar statue bent over doing lines of cocaine, one year after he constructed an eight-foot Oscar with a heroin needle in it.
The “piece” was left at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue on Thursday morning, right near where streets will be closed in anticipation of the Academy Awards.
“The piece is intended to draw attention to Hollywood’s hidden problem of drug addiction that effects hundreds of people in the showbiz industry and is largely ignored until the death of a high profile A list celebrity,” photographer Nick Stern, who works with Plastic Jesus, offered up in a statement on behalf of Plastic Jesus.
