Stayed tuned for details of a contest in which there are no prizes, just a great chance to vent. But first, this message:

Not all art hangs on a wall.  Some gets right in your face. Every day.

The beauty of  public art is it reaches everybody. The drawback is that people see it whether they want to or not.

“Everybody’s got an opinion. It’s so subjective,” Sonoma Mountain sculptor Robert Ellison said recently.

That’s his “Donut Diorama” shown above. It’s at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, where he has several pieces.  You’ve probably also seen his “Renaissance,” the giant steel scissors at Santa Rosa’s Old Courthouse Square.

“People like that one, because they can understand it,” Ellison said. “You’d be surprised. People get offended by sculptures just because they’re not a horse with a rider on it.”

Agree or disagree?

OK. Here comes the contest part. Tell me what public art around Sonoma County you love, or hate, and tell me why. Send me pictures, and I’ll post some. (Send to dan.taylor@pressdemocrat.com.)

But let’s not just pick on Ellison, who happens to be a very nice guy. How do you feel about Bruce Johnson’s big redwood sculptures out at Paradise Ridge Winery, or the Charlie Brown and Snoopy statues scattered all over the place? (The latest word is Lucy statues are coming this summer.)

If you’re walking in the park, or running an errand at a public building, and you see a sculpture that pleases or annoys you, take a picture on your phone and send it to me. I’d like to run them as long as they last.

Comment here, or to my email, or both.