Abstract Sculpture: Annual Reconfiguration 

        

Annually in the early Spring, a crane lifts and pulls apart the two halves of the Abstract Sculpture, a split rhomboid dodecahedron made of stainless steel and aluminum, to create a new sculptural shape.

 

The annual configuration of the Abstract Sculpture is symbolic of all who pulled away from their country of origin and came to these Massachusetts shores, establishing themselves in new and different ways. 

 

"Unlike static cenotaphs and monuments, the Abstract Sculpture...

does what so many others do not; it represents life..."

The changing nature of the shape each year - coupled with children running and laughing

along the Labyrinth and through the Fountain - facilitates the development of memories

while allowing remembrances of the past."

- Lucas Cowan, Public Art Curator 

Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy