The sculpture, located outside of the Dalton Center on Western’s main campus, is meant to imitate the inside of a torus (imagine the space in the hole of a donut). With a 10-foot diameter being supported by a three inch diameter neck, it’s easy to assume that it would have fallen over; but the real problem comes from a break in the lower half.
“Negative 40 degrees or whatever it was," de Sousa Costa said in an interview with WMUK. “I think that coupled with the snow that was on top and no weep hole, water kind of collected in the top. There’s a bulk head there, water collected there over time. With no weep hole, there’s no escape so it just got heavier and heavier.”
de Sousa Costa said he pulled out approximately 220 pounds of gunk from the sculpture. The sculptures originator, David Henderson, will be traveling over 700 miles from Brooklyn, New York to see the progress made on his artwork in the next few weeks, and said he is happy with the renovations so far.
de Sousa Costa hails from South Africa, and has been making his own art for a number of years. His artwork has recently been displayed during the ArtPrize competition; a world renowned art competition held in Grand Rapids, Mich.
To learn more about the renovations, please read the full article at WMUK.
Posted by Stan Sulewski