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Claes Oldenburg, Cap and Tie Atop Westendstraße 1, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1992 (via archiveofaffinities)
Claudia Turrent + Alejandro d'Acosta Arquitectos, Casa Rayban, Ensenada, Mexico, 2005
The House of the Tusken Raiders and Railroad Ties: "The Sand People are easily startled, but they will soon be back, and in greater numbers."
After a hiatus of perhaps as long as forty years, sculpture is again leading the contemporary art discourse. Not all sculpture, but a particular kind that isn't cast, carved or molded, but rather built, sewn, glued or tied together. It often has many components, some of which are found, some of which are made and some of which are detritus.
Laura Hoptman, "Going to Pieces in the 21st Century" from Unmonumental, 2007
Sherman's Neckties, Stone Mountain, GA, c. 1864 / 2011
'The monument, “Sherman’s Neckties,” its location in the city of Stone Mountain marks the approximate place where General William T. Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” actually started.... Around midnight on July 20, 1864, two days before the Battle of Atlanta, Sherman published an order mandating the melting and twisting of rails along designated railroad tracks, preventing rail transportation during the remainder of war. The red-hot rails were bent around trees and telegraph poles, and coined by soldiers and journalists as “Sherman’s Neckties.”'