Votive XXXIV - Allentown, PA, USA
N 40° 35.352 W 075° 31.411
18T E 455699 N 4493287
Votive XXXIV is located in Cedar Parkway in West Allentown, PA.
Waymark Code: WM13DBY
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 11/14/2020
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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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