Sculpture

This sculpture is titled “H20: Liquid Zone”.  Its located in front of the Engleman Hall, its 15-feet tall, and 81-feet long.  The sculpture changes with the seasons, thanks to panels of stainless steel mesh. In warmer weather, rainwater collects in the mesh creating a micro-prismatic effect. In the colder months, the collected water turns to ice, lending a new look to the work. The sculpture was designed by Mikyoung Kim, an award-winning landscape architect and a faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.   When I first saw this sculpture outside of Engleman obviously at first I wondered what it was and also thought about how hard it must have been to make it.  My interpretation of this sculpture was something along the lines of blowing in the wind.  Especially because it’s right next to a tree it looks like the branches are swaying in the same direction as the pillars.  This to me, represents all of the different people who go to southern and each of their individual life paths, and how we may think we’re all different but were all similar in one way or another.  This sculpture is extremely intricate and artistically meaningful.  This could hold many different meanings to each person who looks at it and that is why it hold artistic meaning.