2003, bronze,
63” x 65” x 42”
The three figures, each surrounded by the words for which she is famous, create a space in which a visitor may compare their ideas and actions to form a larger picture of the possibilities for and demands of a heroic female life.
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
63” x 65” x 42”
“Let woman’s sphere be bounded only by her capacity.”
Women’s Rights Convention, Worcester, MA 1851
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
75” x 33” x 21”
Adams, presidential advisor and correspondent, represents old age and Contemplation. She is looking back over her life’s work and influence and perhaps challenging us to do the same.
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
75” x 33” x 21”
“Remember that all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound be any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
Letter to John Adams, Mar. 31, 1776
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
59” x 50” x 32
Wheatley, a slave in colonial Boston, was our first published African-American poet. Her pose is derived from the the only extant image of her, a profile portrait engraved for the frontispiece of her book of poetry.
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
59” x 50” x 32
Here, Wheatley represents youth and Imagination. A stanza from her poem On Imagination is inscribed on her pedestal, ending with visionary imaginative power and freedom:
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze the unbounded soul.
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
59” x 50” x 32
On her pedestal:
I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate
Was snatched from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat:
What pangs excruciating must molest,
What sorrows labour in my parent’s breast?
Steel’d was that soul and by no misery moved
That from a father seized his babe belov’d:
Such, such my case. And can I then but pray
Others may never feel tyrannic sway?
2012
bronze, steel, glass, fragments from the rubble of the World Trade Towers
78” x 22” x 24”
2012 bronze, steel, glass, fragments from the rubble of the World Trade Towers
78” x 22” x 24”
This had to be a sculpture of a human being that had absorbed and survived an attack, wounded but alive, unlike the dynamited Bamiyan Buddha statues and so many other universal cultural treasures.
2012
bronze, steel, glass, fragments from the rubble of the World Trade Towers
78” x 22” x 24”
Inside the reliquary base are pieces of concrete, a tangle of metal reinforcing rods and a shred of Victoria’s Secret lingerie from a store on the concourse. This shred was a terribly poignant reminder that so much that is intimate was exposed, so much that is life-affirming was killed, so much that is instinctive was attacked.
2012
bronze, steel, glass, fragments from the rubble of the World Trade Towers
78” x 22” x 24”
The reliquary pedestal’s beveled corners and angled top are based on the design of the World Trade Towers.
