🔗 Share this article Young Australian Charged for Allegedly Attaching Sticker Eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ Artwork Authorities mentioned they could not remove the eyes without damaging the artwork. A teenager from Australia has faced legal proceedings after reportedly defacing a large art piece of a mythical creature by affixing plastic eyes to it. The 19-year-old, aged 19, appeared via phone at Mount Gambier Magistrates Court in South Australia on Tuesday, facing with one count of property damage. In a statement at the moment of the recent event, the local council explained that surveillance video captured a person placing artificial eyes on the artwork, which residents have dubbed the “Cast in Blue”. The accused made no plea and told the court she was unwell, according to news outlets, with the judge advising her to find a lawyer before her next court date in the final month of the year. The affected sculpture after the stickers were taken off. The following day the alleged incident, the local mayor said that repairs to the popular community sculpture would be costly as the stickers could not be removed without harming the sculpture. “This intentional vandalism to a cherished community art is inappropriate and disrespectful,” Mayor Lynette Martin said in September. “It is not harmless fun, it is pricey - it is also frustrating to those people of our community who have embraced Cast in Blue.” She added the local government would pursue the “substantial” restoration expenses from those responsible for the damage. At the time the artwork was first proposed, it received mixed reactions from the area residents due to its price tag and design. Costing 136,000 Australian dollars (eighty-nine thousand US dollars; £68,000), the artwork depicts a mythical megafauna, with the creators influenced by an ancient anteater-like marsupial discovered in local caves that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”. The sculpture is its formal title but residents nicknamed the artwork the ‘Blue Blob’.