This is The Runner--it's made entirely of horizontal glass
sheets. As it happens, the sculptor was a Fulbright scholar. We didn't know
that when we came across it on our travels to the Metro. It's huge--you can see
Ken in the first picture for size comparison. Our Fulbright hosts explained its
provenance and that that this is not the original. The first installation had
to be moved...but someone didn't realize you can't move thousands of sheets of
glass. I leave it to you to imagine what transpired. Eventually, the figure was
re-created on a new site. In the second photo you can see a concrete wall
around the base. That's the rim of a 6-foot moat of sorts around the base of
the figure.... I suspect it's there to keep people away from the glass, itself.
There's no water; just grass, weeds, and some garbage. But since this is
Greece, there's also a volunteer fig tree, almost tall enough to reach the top
of the concrete rim.
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