🔗 Share this article Young Australian Faces Charges for Supposedly Attaching Googly Eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ Sculpture Authorities mentioned they were unable to take off the eyes without harming the artwork. A teenager from the Land Down Under has appeared in court after allegedly vandalizing a sizable blue sculpture of a mythical creature by affixing plastic eyes to it. Amelia Vanderhorst, 19 years old, participated remotely at the local court in South Australia on Tuesday, charged with one count of property damage. Officials commented at the moment of the recent event, the municipal authorities explained that surveillance video captured a individual placing fake eyes on the artwork, which residents have dubbed the “Cast in Blue”. Ms Vanderhorst did not enter a plea and told the court she was unwell, according to news outlets, with the magistrate advising her to secure a legal representative before her next court date in December. The damaged sculpture after the stickers were removed. A day after the reported event, the local mayor said that restoration to the popular public artwork would be expensive as the adhesive eyes could not be detached without damaging the sculpture. “This wilful damage to a valued public artwork is inappropriate and disrespectful,” Mayor Lynette Martin said in mid-September. “It is not innocent amusement, it is costly - it is also frustrating to those people of our community who have embraced the Blue Blob.” She added the council would seek the “significant” repair costs from those responsible for the vandalism. When the artwork was first proposed, it drew mixed reactions from the area residents due to its cost and appearance. Costing 136,000 Australian dollars ($89,000; sixty-eight thousand pounds), the artwork represents a mythical megafauna, with the creators influenced by an prehistoric marsupial ant-eater discovered in nearby caverns that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”. The sculpture is its formal title but residents called the artwork the ‘Blue Blob’.