Colonnade
Commission details
Temporary public work created for heritage site on Boston Common. Photographic printing on silk panels form soft columns lit from below at night. Parkman Bandstand’s architectural acoustics amplify breezes and winds to full force. Altered images of eagles’ wings from statuary around Boston Common suggest nonviolence over military victory. Twenty-four silk panels, aluminium supports designed by nArchitects, New York. 487,68 cm high x 762 cm diameter (16’ high x 25’). Commissioned for Let Freedom Ring, Vita Brevis, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston.
- Boston (Boston Common)
- 1998
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Colonnade, 1998. Parkman Bandstand.
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Colonnade, 1998. Night view. Soft monument.