SOMA
560 Mission Street
Annular EclipseGeorge Rickey
George Rickey (1907 -2002) built his career combining fundamental elements of nature and physics in the creation of his sculpture. His works include a broad vocabulary of geometric shapes and multiple devices for moving the elements in his sculpture, such as gimbals, pendulums and rotors. Ricky constantly experimented with mechanical systems, but as he wrote in 1991, the drama in his sculpture “is in the movement, not the structure. The means must disappear.”
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While I am beginning to find kinetic sculptures over done in the modern landscape, I love the parklet that this one sits in. The Landscape Architect on this project was Christian Lemon while at the firm Hart Howerton.
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