After a night of partying, Richland resident Mike Wingfield wasn't sure what to make of the artwork that mysteriously appeared in his front yard overnight.
Wingfield surveyed the piece Saturday afternoon with friends Shan Belew and Jen Heineman.
"It looks like a giant vagina," Wingfield said with a bewildered look on his face. "I'm just totally amazed."
The 5-foot-plus sculpture looks like a surfboard with an oval cutout in the center, replaced with a piece of clouded glass. It's made of hard plaster and stands on a square base.
Wingfield estimates it weighs close to 100 pounds.
After finding the object Saturday morning, Wingfield feared it could have been stolen from a local boutique or mistakenly placed in his yard -- it was accompanied by an unsigned birthday card.
"My birthday is in May," the 53-year-old quipped.
Just in case, Wingfield called the police. He said two officers arrived in separate cars.
As they stepped out of their cruisers, "one cop looks at the other and says, 'You owe me lunch,' " Wingfield said, chuckling. "They were just laughing their butts off."
"They're just going to leave it here until somebody claims it," Wingfield said.
Wingfield joked he might put it on Craigslist, while Belew proposed cordoning it behind velvet ropes and charging passers-by 50 cents to take a photo next to it. Heineman offered suggestions for how Wingfield could use it on Halloween.
Wingfield's wife, Linda, who declined to talk about the mysterious artwork, was less than amused with its presence.
"She wants it out of here," Wingfield said.
Until someone claims it, or his wife forces him to haul it to the dump, Wingfield's going to embrace the oddity.
"It's got to improve the (property value)," he said.
-- Drew Foster: 585-7207; dfoster@tricityherald.com
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