Step into a certain local hair salon on Stert Street, and you’ll find more than just stylish haircuts. There’s a work of contemporary art: a banana, suspended mid-wall by a strip of duct tape.
The inspiration came from the world-famous duct-taped banana by Maurizio Cattelan, which sold for $6.24 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York last Wednesday.
While the Abingdon version might not get such a price tag, it’s priceless for sparking laughter and conversation among customers.
I think it’s not quite at the right angle so it’s just a banana taped to a wall. And remember, fruit flies like a banana.