Pointer
There's a pedestrian bridge/sculpture on my campus that intrigues me. In fact, I'm going to talk about the thing, briefly, as part of a conference presentation I'll be making this week.
I took pictures of the bridge-slash-sculpture the other day. These photos show just a few of the figures that adorn it. I'd never noticed the figure of the pointing man (which is actually a reference to another sculpture on campus) until I took these photos. But it works well with the point I want to make about this bridge in my presentation. I love when that happens!
posted by Deb @ 11:00 PM
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I've been coming back to these photos and thinking about them, Do you have a photo of the whole thing? The pointing guy looks interesting--he seems to be layered (like the "a")--was this a structural choice or an aesthetic one? It reminds me of a folded -up string of paper dolls.
Will you tell us what your talk is about?
Joanna--
I didn't take a photo of the whole bridge because I already have a pretty, glossy picture of it--a professional one taken by the college's marketing people. So I'll use that professional one in my talk. But as far as posting it on my blog: would that be a copyright violation or something?
About my talk: it's for TYCA Midwest. I'm talking about a community-based writing project that my colleagues and I have been doing with GED students. I'm using the bridge images at the beginning of my presentation. I'm juxtaposing our beautiful New York-artist-designed bridge with another local landmark: an ugly, rusty overpass in a poor part of town, a part of town where many of our GED students come from.
I'm also using the bridge in a way that the college probably wouldn't like: I want to point out how we have this structure that, according to our own promotional materials, is supposed to represent our mission to reach out to the community--and yet the bridge connects an administrative building with a...
...parking garage! And the pointing man figure: he's referring to another well-known sculpture on our campus--so it's all just more self-referential stuff, ya know?! Uggh.
You're right about the layered effect of the symbols on the bridge. Apparently, that's the artist's signature thing.
Thanks for asking!!
I forgot to mention: the theme of the TYCA Midwest conference is: "Crossing Bridges: Encouraging Transitions and Transformations."
Conference attendees are probably going to be sick to death of bridge images and metaphors--but I couldn't resist on this one! Oh well. (At least I'm being critical of certain attempts at bridge-building, I guess!)
We'll see how it goes!
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