“Melania” appeared on the banks of the Saba River in July 2020.
Four months after Melania Nabbs reopened her residence at Washington’s most famous address, the avatar, which is larger than her life expectancy, appears to have made a silent exit from her Slovenian hometown, Sevenica.
The rest of the giant bronze statue is their legs and a two-meter-high tree stump where they stood.
This symmetry will likely appeal to Wes Anderson, the often-odd US director who is characterized by strange robbers in his films. But even the catalogue on his back was nothing like that of the cursed first lady figure.
This is because this is not the first time Melania Trump’s tribute has met a nasty end in Sevenica.
The first iteration was published in July 2019. Local artisans who swing a chainsaw were carved by local artisans called Ares “Maki” Zupeb. This was a year ago when an unidentified assailant decided to turn it into a bonfire on July 4th.
Luckily, American artist Brad Downey asked Maxi to create an original wooden one, but he’s already casting the statue. It has officially been revived in bronze on the same site.
At the time of the announcement, Downey said the new version was designed to be “as solid as possible and not something you can expect from durable materials.”
But, after all, it can be slashed and taken away at the ankle.
Local police say they have treated “Melania’s” loss disappearance as “theft” and have begun an investigation.
Brad Downey has always argued that his work is political. His upbringing was similar to that of First Lady, so he chose Maxi as his collaborator.
He then claimed that Melania Trump benefited from the US citizenship process where she was quickly tracked, but other immigrants suffered under her husband’s “xenophobia” policy.
Now he suspects that the statue’s loss has something to do with Trump being re-elected.
Meanwhile, in Sevenica, local governments have mixed feelings. They condemned “any form of interference with private or public property.”
But they added, “The image of the first lady in America wasn’t something that everyone was proud of.”
