Location:
6100 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago, IL 60639
Location Notes:
North of Cultural Center on Lincoln Park West
Installation Duration:
November 2017 - November 2018
Artist:
Terry Karpowicz
Medium:
Steel and granite
Year Created:
2012-13
Features:
Outdoor, Temporary, Sculpture
Description
Artist's Statement: Pandora’s Shepherd is a work that follows a theme I started in 2001. Our society has pushed the environment to the brink, with carbon emissions, land misuse, all adding to the global warming of our planet. The large granite slab delicately balanced atop the steel base is a metaphor for our efforts to confront these negative influences on our planet. If that stone should happen to fall from its perch it would expose a cataclysmic set of events that may not be reversible, much like Pandora’s Box.