Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, 1981-89, Federal Building Plaza, NY.
Rest In Peace oh changer of worlds. Art has never been the same. I felt eerily safe in your steel confines. They were familiar gestures, drawings in space, and I found comfort in their warm burnt umbers, rusts, soft golds and earth browns.
Your works are a contradiction, impossible, heavy yet afloat - macho, rough and tough, but with a weathered surface born of time that is so fragile. I frequently walked away feeling restored and balanced after a stroll through one’s belly. Now we tilt in your honor.
