Type
LabelTranscription
"Put into a hopper - a large portion of the sun rising majestically every morning for a millennium; add the beauty and life-giving quality of Lake Michigan with its turbulent and limped moods; and to that add a river that caused the first settlement here in this place, then add five-million humans and five-million birds and animals in the greater Chicago area; then add the fierce energy and activities of all these living creatures; and add to that the sound of the city in the middle of the night when even then - one can hear the throbbing pulse of the place. Well now, mix this all up and one beholds CHICAGO and a sculpture of this couldn't be just a person, nor an animal, nor the lake, nor the sun - but some creation containing all of these things. And this sculpture contains, for the artist, a suggestion of the sun in the upper southern portion - and of the water movement throughout - and the surge of life everywhere."