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- While abstract, Silent Presence is also distinctly iconic.
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- Silent Presence was created in the midst of her 1980s exploration of columnar forms.
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- Its vertical stance suggests the figure, and establishes a direct relationship of scale and posture with the viewer, while its totemic form carries spiritual associations.
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- Silent Presence, 1982, bronze and brass base
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- Yet its ramp-like, planar forms also bring to mind the elevated highway, I-93, that once bisected this urban landscape.
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- Sudden Presence 1971, Cor-ten steel
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- For example, Sudden Presence might remind one of the Egyptian pyramids.
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- As you walk around the sculpture, its shape changes markedly, and you may find that it evokes other associations.
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- Using such materials as stone and metal, Pepper creates sculptures that evoke both natural and built environments, specifically the extraordinary building projects of early civilizations.
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- Beverly at work in factory 1963
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- Beverly at work 1962
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- Forte Belvedere, 1998 Foreground: Cleopatra’s Wedge, 1991 Steel 180 x 140 x 36 in (450 x 350 x 90 cm) Florence, Italy
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- BROKEN CIRCLE
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- Erased Presence, 2000 Chauvigny Stone 50 x 79 x 10 in (128 x 202 x 27 cm)
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