Dubliners urged to give ‘Irish welcome’ via interactive sculpture but bad behaviour is also on display
Rain sluiced down on a grey Dublin afternoon but the crowd clustering around the portal ignored the downpour and waved at a man cycling towards the screen on a sunny morning in Manhattan.
Seconds after the cyclist, a woman appeared walking her dog. She stopped, stared at the screen and grinned. She picked up her dog and waved his paw. The crowd in Dublin, huddled under umbrellas, gave another cheer. “I wish I’d brought my dog,” said Amy Ferguson, 24.Photograph: Rory Carroll/The Guardian
“I would encourage Dubliners and visitors to the city to come and interact with the sculpture and extend an Irish welcome and kindness to cities all over the world,” said Dublin’s lord mayor, Daithí de Róiste. A pair of matching portals in 2021 connected Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, with Lublin in Poland. The artist Paul St George connected London and New YorkThe cold and wet did not deter tourists and natives from lingering and taking selfies at Dublin’s portal. Most were delighted, all curious. They watched a young New Yorker speed-walk past the screen, only to return and gaze in puzzlement as people waved at her.
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