Untitled - Sacramento, CA
N 38° 34.392 W 121° 29.370
10S E 631582 N 4270497
This artistic silhouette sculpture is located on O Street in front of the Milestones Childhood Development Center and just south of the state capitol building in Sacramento, CA.
Waymark Code: WMJVMC
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/04/2014
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Located along O Street is an artistic sculpture of silhouette panels made of steel and cut into designs like a jigsaw puzzle and then put back together in circular shapes. This steel sculpture is untitled by artist Gale McCall and was created in 2002. I located a professional website for McCall here that highlights this sculpture and she titles this piece as 'Kaleidoscope' on her page. I also located a web page that contains pictures of every steel circular panel of this sculpture here and gives the viewer a good impression of the playfulness each of these steel panels embodies, which is fitting, considering this piece is located at a childhood development center. Gale McCall's website also contains pictures of the other side of these steel panels which contain colorful keyhole-shaped pieces that are centered on each panel. One of the steel panels is a silhouette of a key. I don't know what McCall was trying to convey with the keyholes and jigsaw-like shapes in her pieces but they are playful and fit into the theme of the architecture of this building. The shapes are both abstract and representational. If you look closely, you'll pick out a glass, a pacifier, a horn, and a microscope (or so I thought). I can imagine children looking at these cut out shapes and picking out their own objects, much like a child picks out shapes in clouds in the sky.