July 25, 2019 – Another long exposure photograph from uptown Charlotte, North Carolina of a steel sculpture called “Spiral Odyssey” against the city skyline.
According to the Qcitymetro website: The Sculpture is a stunning tribute to native son Romare Bearden by Richard Hunt.
The name “Spiral Odyssey” is a triple tribute. It honors Bearden, the master collage maker who co-founded the New York group Spiral in 1963 to encourage African-American artists. It refers to Homer’s “Odyssey,” which Bearden explored multiple times in his work. And it hints at the two-decade friendship between Bearden and Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt.
The piece can be called abstract, but your mind shapes bits of it into figures: the ship’s body, its billowing sail (or is that a wave?), perhaps a leaping dolphin. Hunt crafted slender arcs of steel so that light falling on them appears to ripple, like a current passing across water.
