“’Walking to the Sky’ is a portrait of all of humanity rising upwards from the earth to the heavens above — striving into the future with strength and determination.” Says the CMU (a’64) alumnus and artist. I drive by the Carnegie Mellon campus and think about trying to find a place to park to photograph this public art from a closer angle.
I posted a guest blog by Shuey of this sculpture in 2017 and another post from Berlin in 2018 Borofsky’s work Molecule Man
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Weighs 7 tons! Press release says it’s controversial. It is almost four years to the day the release was issued. Stopped at the red light on Forbes, the corner of Morewood. Saw the tapes around a figure looking up and realized it was part of the sculpture. Jonathan Borofsky graduated from CMU in ’64. Looking at it cheers me. Not everyone feels that way. Or at least they didn’t when it was first installed. And thinking about it and other art installations that stir controversy, I went to look it up. Great topic and list — “controversial public art installations” (click here)for other art that created a response.
