Administered by United States General Services Administration Washington District of Columbia
Located Edward R. Roybal Federal Building 255 East Temple Street Los Angeles California
Date:
1982-1991. Installed 1992
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995.
Image on file.
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Summary:
Installation in three parts around a central plaza. Nestled at the center of a round fountain is a reclining bronze infant, which appears to float on a cloud of mist and holds aloft a bronze globe. Across the plaza from the fountain, set in a niche in a pillar, an abstract metal female figure sits on a chair facing the baby in the fountain. Her proper left ankle is chained to the wall of the niche. On the figure's proper right is a small table with a globe on it. The third part of the installation consists of an overhead frieze of cast concrete running the length of a pergola. The frieze also continues down columns on either end of the pergola. The frieze is covered with abstract human figures carrying balls, pillars and boxes on their shoulders or under their arms. In the center of the frieze, a multi-armed human figure holds a knife in one of its proper left arms and a decapitated human head by the hair in one of its proper right hands. To the left of the center figure is a human figure hanging on to the underside of a rhinoceros. To the right of the center figure is a human figure laying on its back with an elephant standing on top of it.
