3 Sheep Credit: Photo by Jimmy Jalapeeno

How fitting is it that, in our era of massive, rubber-stamped development, the winning artwork in a poll of the city’s 2006 People’s Gallery exhibit, slated be added to City Hall’s permanent collection, is Benge Elliott Jr.’s 3 Sheep?

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