Votive XXXIV - Allentown, PA, USA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This description of Votive XXXIV is taken from a Newspaper article about the art legacy of Muriel and Phillip Berman:

"It's 1987, and Team Berman is erecting yet another strikingly large, strikingly abstract sculpture in Allentown's Cedar Creek Park. Muriel and Phil are enjoying Ernest Shaw's "Votive XXXIV," a 30-foot-high tower of rusty-steel geometric forms in a field by Parkway Boulevard and 31st Street. It joins an assortment of other Berman-donated jaw-droppers, including Paul Sisko's 56-square-foot, tilted steel cube bisected by a screw.

The Bermans' pleasure is interrupted by a shout of "It's junk!" Phil Berman, never one to ignore the charge that he's an impresario of three-dimensional graffiti, invites the critical pedestrian to meet the artist. Then he and Shaw, a former psychiatrist, explain the method behind their madness.

The sculpture's circles and rectangles, they say, connect earth to sky, just like a totem pole. Rusting is a natural process, as natural as trees shedding leaves. A challenging sculpture can force viewers to circle it; it can make them see a park differently, more completely, even more clearly."

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TITLE: Votive XXXIV ARTIST(S): Ernest Shaw DATE: 7/1/1987 MEDIUM: Steel CONTROL NUMBER: IAS PA001284 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: In the Cedar Parkway, near the intersection of Parkway Boulevard and Cedar Crest Boulevard. SE of the Intersection. No practical street address exits. DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: No differences that I can tell.

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