The State - News from Oct. 24, 1985

Whether the city wanted it or not, Berkeley’s waterfront has a 14-foot-tall, 3,000-pound concrete sculpture of an Asian warrior, bending a bow with arrow in place and sitting astride a snarling beast--compliments of impatient artist Fred Fierstein. After waiting five months for the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission to form a panel to review his sculpture, Fierstein, 38, became fed up with municipal red tape. He rented a trailer and crane and moved the hefty creation from his driveway to the waterfront in the middle of Monday morning traffic. The “city’s policies have been violated,” complained Parks and Recreation Director Bill Montgomery, who threatened Fierstein with a $60 littering ticket. Montgomery said, though, that he would rather wait for the arts commission to decide whether it wants the sculpture before he actually tags Fierstein. Given the commission’s pace to date, Fierstein quipped, the statue “might be there for months.”