Omaphlos - Satellite Oddity - Sarasota, Florida, USA.
N 27° 19.879 W 082° 32.754
17R E 347064 N 3024079
The Omphalos Sculpture, featured on Virtual Globetrotting, is located in The Bayfront Island Park, Sarasota, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMN235
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2014
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I think of this sculpture as the 'Shape Shifter' but it's official title is 'Omphalos' - Featured on Vitrual Globetrotting, & Bing Birds Eye.
A bronze sculpture by Richard Beckman - Featuring a spiral like abstract sculpture, that seems to vary in size, and shape, as you move around it.
Placed in 2000 in the Bayfront Island Park, Sarasota, Florida.
Omphalos from Dictionary.Com. 1.
"the navel; umbilicus.
2.
the central point.
3.
Greek Antiquity. a stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth." Text Source: (
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Title: Omphalos
Artist: Richard Beckman
Media (materials) used: Bronze
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Bayfront Island Park
Date of creation or placement: 2000