Čumil (statue)

Čumil, the bronze man resting his chin on his hands as he leans out of a manhole on Panská Street in Bratislava's Old Town. Viktor Hulík made him in the late 1990s to celebrate the newly pedestrianized center, and his name is Slovak slang for someone who stands and stares. He sits at shoe level, which is the joke and the problem: cars kept running into him, so the city added a Man at Work sign beside him. Nobody agrees on whether he is resting, working or simply watching the world go by, and that suits him fine.