Tower

Name/Title

Tower

Entry/Object ID

2017.9

Artwork Details

Medium

Wood, porcelain, and metal

Context

Credit Line: Gift of the artist

Made/Created

Artist

Gary Spinosa

Date made

1981

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Object Size

Height

144 in

Width

42-1/4 in

Depth

44-3/4 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Spinosa's work seems to be inspired by world religions, and he says that they are ways for people to connect with their ancestral memories and past lives. He feels that he's contacting a universal part of ourselves and capturing it in his art. To Spinosa, birds are a connection to heaven, and the doe is a welcoming guardian to the ancestral world. "Tower" reaches up, at a height of 12 feet, to the ancestors that we have lost our connection with.