The controversy over sculptures in front of two stores on Historic Ellicott City’s Main Street goes more than skin deep. Sometimes a peach and an eggplant are more than meets the emoji.

A INTERNATIONAL, BUT INCOMPLETE STORY

News outlets from Kansas City to Maine to England are running a story about The Wine Bin and Georgia Grace Café and the two sculptures by Eastern Shore artist Jan Kirsh installed in front of them. The stories suggest the sculptures must come down because they have explicit adult connotation and to a lesser extent, conflict with the historic nature of the town. (In texting lingo, the eggplant and peach are often used to imply, well, “naughty bits”.)

That does not paint the full picture, however, as discussions with the artist, the Howard County Department of Z

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