Spiritual Drifting
On Oct 25, 2011 The Herald Tribune announced a mysterious discovery. The body of one, Ego Leonard, was found washed up on Siesta Key Beach, Florida. He wasn’t dead, but he wasn’t alive either. Ego Leonard was an 8ft tall, 100lb. fiberglass Lego man. The local who found the giant figurine, Jeff Hindman, reported his encounter to the authorities, who then attempted in vain to solve the enigma of Ego Leonard’s provenance. Hindman ended up selling it on e-Bay. Incidentally, two similar creations washed up on the shores of Holland in 2007, and England in 2008. Those drifters also went unclaimed. The Lego company flatly disavowed these mutations of their iconic inch-high Minifigures. What makes Lego so marvelous is that each piece is fungible, and can plug into any structure made from Lego building blocks. This allows each brick to add a vital contribution to the creative Lego-scape they augment. However, the giant versions floating in the ocean are not only creepy, they ar...