Mermaid or Advertisement?

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readAug 4, 2011

An artist sponsored by a German soap company (Bliss, presumably, via Steiner Leisure) installed a “mermaid” in the Alster river in Hamburg this week. As the anchors point out, she is not an actual mermaid but a sculpture of a head and two knees.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com