Salt Lake City 9th and 9th whale sculpture's cultish following grows with each winter storm

SALT LAKE CITY — In April of 2022, a giant rainbow whale went up in the middle of an intersection in a quirky Salt Lake City neighborhood.

The Church of the Sacred Whale has a following that grows with each winter storm — Utahns taking to social media, singing their praises for the snow that has brought incredible ski conditions and a relief to the drought.“Public art, that's one of the things it does," said Renato Olmedo-González, the public art program manager for the Salt Lake City Arts Council.

“It's a place where a lot of people from different backgrounds, different beliefs come together, and a whale being ‘out of the blue’ was sort of a way that the artist wanted to talk about the neighborhood," he said."He lived here for a while, and how he felt like a whale in the desert, and how he was embraced by the community.”

JennaBreeTV When all that snow melts, he can complete his breach!

JennaBreeTV All hail!

JennaBreeTV People would make their own idols

JennaBreeTV all hail the whale

JennaBreeTV PLEASE CREDIT WASATCH OPEN SNOW

JennaBreeTV Call me crazy but my wife and I often think that this should have been a triceratops.

JennaBreeTV That whale doesn't have any 13 year old wives. Notaprofit

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JennaBreeTV I doubt its 'many.' Might be 'some.'

JennaBreeTV Civic-art represents the government that funded it, and this is ugly, bloated, stupid-looking, a waste of money and loved by all the worst people. The twitter account is cool though.

JennaBreeTV The fallen have resorted back to idol worship. Moses is going to break some tablets.

JennaBreeTV It’s stupid, put the nomes back

JennaBreeTV WasatchSnow hail the whale!

JennaBreeTV Still more plausible than praying for moisture. GovCox

JennaBreeTV All hail the 9thand9thwhale

JennaBreeTV Every time we install a new outdoor art piece something happens. The aquarium adds that U2 garage sale piece and we're in a pandemic. We install the whale and the weather goes crazy. Be careful how you wield art in this state.

JennaBreeTV Typical Utahn behavior. 🤣🤣

JennaBreeTV I think it was me

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JennaBreeTV That's a whale of a story.

JennaBreeTV ALL HAIL THE WHALE

JennaBreeTV The Whale is our true savior. Praise be.

JennaBreeTV I'm suprised it's not surrounded by tents.

JennaBreeTV Tear it down

JennaBreeTV All hail the whale.

Weird you don't interview the actual artist. For what it is worth, I do not support the 'Church of the Sacred Whale' and advise against it. They did not make this, they are capitalizing on my work. They want your money because you like the whale. - the 'Artist'

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