Showing posts with label goldie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goldie. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Oxide

...the artwork and its sculptor – UA graduate student Joe McCreary – have a serious story to tell. Goldie symbolizes the closing of Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces in 1972 and America’s passage into the post-industrial era. The robot is not so much dead or sleeping as turned off.


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