Look Up, Ohio!

Mayhaps this is an insignificant issue, and perhaps i am making too much out of it: but I live in a sleepy college town in northeastern ohio, known as Kent. In Kent, on the corner of main street and franklin avenue, there is a bar, upon which is perched a grotesque, which is a statue usually incorrectly called a gargoyle. Grotesques and gargoyles serve the same basic function of frightening away evil spirits, etc. Gargoyles are attached to water, though. Like, the typical gargoyle is a downspout. People don't really ever seem to use the proper terminology for them, though.
So on top of this building, plain as the nose on my face is a large grotesque, light gray against the dark brick background of the next building over...which also has a storm trooper painted on the dark bricks that no one seems to have noticed, either. These things have been there forever...
The point is this: I am in contact with a lot of people on the average day, and I have been for years. No one in this town seems to have noticed either of these massive pieces of art. What this says to me is that people are so wrapped up in what's going on right in front of them that they can't take a minute to look around.
There are tons of pedestrians in this town. These things are on the main drag. If you go through Kent you drive past them. There are a lot of bars, so there is a lot of foot traffic, and yet people don't see this. It concerns me a great deal that: people don't look at the sky any more.