Last week as I was leaving Philadelphia from my last trade show there, I was walking under the convention center along 12th St. where a sound sculpture once hung. It consisted of two parabolic metal dishes that would bong every 30 seconds or so and the sound would accompany you as you walked along while lights would light in concert with the sound. As I was feeling nostalgic after 25 years or so doing this trade show, I realized how comfortable or even attached you can become to an object. One end of the piece still hangs on the Arch Street end of the tunnel, but it has been rendered silent and unlit. The one dish is about 6 feet in diameter. Im left wondering so much about this piece; who created it, if people think about the sterile remaining component, why I can find no reference to it online, and why this piece should be the focal point of my sadness. After all, there is much public art in the area that I walked by over the years, Robert Indianas Love sculpture, Lipschitz government piece, etc. It is my wont to take note of the public sculpture and architecture whose space I share when Im traveling. I am hoping that someone who takes the time to read this will know of this particular piece and help me lance this itch. I think of the hours it took to commission,design, manufacture, install, and complete this piece. I hope it has not disappeared like the twenty five years that I have lived with it, paying for parking, walking to Reading Terminal for lunch, and returning to various hotels late at night. I will miss these things.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:09:49 +0000
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