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Kenneth Snelson
Free Ride Home, 1974
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Kenneth Snelson American, 1927- Free Ride Home, 1974 Aluminum and stainless steel 30 x 60 x 60' Set on a carefully landscaped grassy knoll, Snelson's architecturally-scaled, open, lattice-work sculpture appears as light as a constellation of stars. Free Ride Home was erected in a half-hour by a crew of four men and has never required any adjustment. The self-supporting structure depends on a system in which the wires function like muscles and the tubes like bones, in a taut balance of tension and compression. |