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Giant Sculptures Look Like Machines but, Nobody Knows What They Do

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Giant Sculptures Look Like Machines but, Nobody Knows What They Do
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Most public sculptures ask you to stand in front of them and feel something, usually reverence, awe, or a vague sense of civic pride. They represent people, events, or abstract ideals, but they rarely suggest function. A figure cast in bronze doesn’t appear to be doing anything, and that’s largely the point. The statue commemorates; it doesn’t operate. The relationship between viewer and object is, by design, entirely passive.
Michael Jantzen had a different idea. The Santa Fe-

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