THE BIG DUCK

“Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular – typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.”

– MARTIN FILLER

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The Big Duck, Flanders, Long Island, NY, 2005
National Register of Historic Places, Suffolk County, New York

OJOS ASI

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war

How to divide the conquest of thy sight;

Mine eye my heart thy picture’s sight would bar;

My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.

My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,

A closet never pierced with crystal eyes;

But the defendant doth that plea deny,

And says in him thy fair appearance lies.

To ‘cide this title is empanellèd

A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,

And by their verdict is determinèd

The clear eye’s moiety and the dear heart’s part:

As thus—mine eye’s due is thy outward part,

And my heart’s right, thy inward love of heart.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 46, NO FEAR