| Tightrope Walker | |
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 The sculpture in 2014 | |
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| Artist | Kees Verkade |
| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Sculpture |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Location | New York City, New York, United States |
| 40°48′27″N 73°57′38″W / 40.807533°N 73.960666°W | |
Tightrope Walker (sometimes Tight Rope Walker)[1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture by Dutch artist Kees Verkade, installed on Columbia University's Revson Plaza in Upper Manhattan, New York City, in 1979.[2] The work commemorates General William J. Donovan and depicts one figure standing atop another as he tightrope walks.[3]
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[intro music] I practiced tightroping for about an hour a day and after about a week I started to feel like I'm now getting my balance I started to notice that it wasn't that I was getting more balanced, but that I was getting more comfortable with being out of balance. Rather than getting nervous and overcompensating if I could just compensate enough and I thought I wish I could that in my life. After going down many different avenues, I decided to make this work 'Touch' and what I did is I went home to the Bahamas to the beach that was directly in front of the house I grew up in. It made sense for me to go back to this horizon I had looked at my whole life. [sound of ocean waves] [ocean waves and birds chirping] I thought it would have much more tension if I could walk along the rope and as it dip that just for a moment I would touch the horizon. [ocean waves and birds chirping]
See also
References
- ^ "Life Force - Public Outdoor Sculpture at Columbia". Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Tight Rope Walkers - Public Outdoor Sculpture at Columbia". Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Flying Horses, Tightrope Walkers and Other Campus Icons". Columbia Law School. 1977-11-28. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
External links
Media related to Tightrope Walker by Kees Verkade at Wikimedia Commons
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