Downtown NYC’s Charging Bull sculpture, a now oft-referenced symbol for Wall Street, enjoyed a brief re-imagining Sunday as a street art project when New York-based Polish artist Olek completely covered it with her signature form-fitting and camouflage crochet work.

Bull by Olek, photo by Olek

Olek called her purple and pink bull’s crochet covering “a Christmas gift to NYC and a tribute to the sculptor of the bull, Arturo di Modica.”

Olek highlighted the irony of di Modica’s own guerilla art. Di Modica placed Charging Bull in front of the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 in the middle of the night without permission. The 16-foot, 3.5 ton bronze sculpture cost di Modica $360,000 to make and install.

Unlike Charging Bull, Olek’s guerilla artwork only lasted a couple of hours. What do you think of Olek’s work?

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