Urban Progress - Girl, Interrupted

These pictures are of a sculpture across the street from our apartment complex. As you can see, the area is being renovated and I may be reporting the first casualty of the renovation process. The sculpture used to have a small statue of a little girl peering into one of the monster's eyes. I wish I'd taken a picture before she disappeared.
I didn't realize it earlier but she "made" the sculpture. She added a sense of curiousity, wonder and whimsy. She was simply standing on her toes and looking into one of the monster's eyes to see what was going on in there. She's not there anymore. Without her, the sculpture just seems like a whacked-out, Burton-eque, left-over movie prop. Interesting but not great.
I hope they'll bring her back. If only because it seems that she forget her shoes ... and apparently, her feet.