Beacon of Endurance----2023
Project site:
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum/ Springfield, IL
Funded by:
State of Illinois Capital Development Board
Dimensions:
16’-3”W x 24’-10”H x 15’D
Description:
This sitework symbolizes and articulates Abraham Lincoln’s significance to American life and culture, with a landmark artform that will have great presence, yet exhibit humility in its setting. The obelisk-like form is slightly tilted, to suggest human and constitutional traumas and vulnerabilities. Its materiality bridges from the industrial strength of weathered steel rooted in the land, to the impervious stainless steel of its upper form—reaching skyward. At nighttime, the artform will transform through illumination and the projection of societal ideals and issues onto the Museum walls, to become a beacon of American endurance through decades of history, that is still unfolding.
Constructed of Cor-Ten steel, stainless steel, Lexan, laser-cut inscriptions, LED lighting
