Giant oyster sculpture for waterfront (Falmouth Packet, May 21) and what a load of verbal codswallop in order to justify this bit of expensive engineering and which is as far removed from bona fide art as anything I’ve seen and which also claims to be modern art.

That the oyster was once a common, cheap, food item of the poor in early Victorian days in London, the fact that oysters are now on a par with all other gastronomic delights of the affluent rich, along with caviar and of course “champers,” still does not warrant the high financial cost that will be incurred and certainly as a magnet, is hardly likely to attract by way of education, children or indeed foreign visitors, let alone locals in Falmouth who will already know what a real oyster looks like.

Peter Mahoney,
Reawla,
Hayle