For more than two years, an 11-foot-by-10-foot pig has greeted visitors at the DeCordova Museum’s 35-acre sculpture park in Lincoln, Mass., near Boston. And it’s a pig with a hidden agenda, only revealed upon close inspection.

The pink wood-and-steel sculpture is called the Trojan Piggy Bank and is the work of artists Gail Simpson and Aristotle Georgiades. Through their company, Actual Size Artworks, the two have collaborated on many large-scale indoor and outdoor public art projects across the country since 1992.

“It’s been a tremendously popular piece,” says Corey Vronin, DeCordova’s director of marketing and public relations. “People really enjoyed it.”

“Enjoyed” is the key word. A recent windstorm destroyed it so you can no longer see it.

“A tree came down and dissected the pig,” Vronin explains. “The artists are considering if they can repair it. We are very sad.”

The good news is there’s more. Gail Simpson’s sculptures will be on display at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, from March 31 through April 25.

“This is the last exhibit of the Visiting Artist Series,” says Anthony Brown, Northwest’s news bureau manager. “We do about 10 or 11 of them a year. Georgiades exhibited here last year.”

In addition to the exhibit, Simpson will show slides and discuss her work during a lecture/reception at 7 p.m., Monday, March 31, in the Olive Deluce Fine Arts building, room 244. Simpson’s art usually reveals themes that address social and cultural concerns. As Simpson writes on her Web site, actualsizeartworks.com:

“Our goal is to create art work that, rather than providing decor, engages its audience in an intelligent, respectful manner, and although acknowledging the diversity of visitors and users of the site it would suggest human issues or experiences common to all.”

So her Trojan pig was not just a giant, fun piggybank. On closer examination, one would have seen a warning of greed associated with the expanding military — military camouflage colors painted around the snout, grates on the eyes, a hatch door hidden on the underbelly, and a large silver coin waiting at the piggybank slot. As expressed by the artist: “The pleasures of consumer culture are accompanied by less-desirable social consequences. When we impose one way of life onto another, the bad goes along with the good. The playful piggybank has a hidden agenda.”

SEE IT

What: Sculpture exhibit by Gail Simpson

Where: First-floor gallery of the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts building at Northwest Missouri State University

When: March 31 through April 25

Lecture/reception at 7 p.m. Monday, March 31 in room 244

Lifestyle reporter Sylvia Anderson may be reached at sylviaanderson@npgco.com.