Dec 152011
Ingleside
San Francisco City College
Ocean Avenue
This is titled Up-Tight #1 by Jaques Overhoff. Mr. Overhoff has been in this blog before with a piece on SF City College campus. Up-Tight #1 is painted concrete. The name was to symbolize the stabilizing effects of the tension cables. That made absolutely no sense to me until I found an earlier photo of the piece.
Obviously some restoration is in order for this piece that was installed in 1977.
Yes – even in your older pic one of the guys has a broken arm. Too easy a target for vandals I guess!
I’m glad you found the earlier photo because I couldn’t make any sense of it either.
I agree that it makes more sense with the climbers, but then, is art supposed to make sense all the time? I hope they make the restoration to the piece.
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It’s funny but I thought the title of this sculpture was very appropriate as it looked to me like two people angry with each other! 🙂
Glad that it’s been renovated.
My parents lived for years in Turlock and we’d always fly into SF on our way to visit them.