🔗 Share this article Australian Teen Charged for Supposedly Placing Googly Eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ Artwork Authorities mentioned they could not remove the eyes without harming the artwork. A young person from the Land Down Under has appeared in court after reportedly vandalizing a large blue sculpture of a legendary being by applying plastic eyes to it. Amelia Vanderhorst, aged 19, appeared via phone at the local court in the state of South Australia on Tuesday, facing with one count of property damage. In a statement at the time of the recent event, the local council explained that CCTV footage showed a person placing fake eyes on the artwork, which residents have nicknamed the “Cast in Blue”. Ms Vanderhorst did not enter a plea and informed the court she was ill, according to media sources, with the magistrate advising her to find a legal representative before her upcoming hearing in December. The affected sculpture after the stickers were taken off. The following day the alleged incident, the city leader stated that restoration to the much-loved community sculpture would be expensive as the stickers were impossible to be removed without harming the art piece. “This intentional vandalism to a cherished public artwork is unacceptable and disrespectful,” Mayor Lynette Martin remarked in mid-September. “It is not harmless fun, it is pricey - it is also disappointing 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 damage. When the sculpture was first proposed, it drew mixed reactions from the local community due to its price tag and design. Priced at A$136,000 ($89,000; sixty-eight thousand pounds), the sculpture depicts a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture’s designers influenced by an prehistoric anteater-like marsupial found in nearby caverns that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”. Cast in Blue is its official name but locals called the artwork the ‘Blue Blob’.