Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” statue has lived on 6th Avenue & 55th Street for as long as I can remember. I’ve photographed people there of course. 😉
Apparently it was whisked away for refurbishing during Covid, and now has returned to NYC where it is visiting Rockefeller Center until October 23rd.
In addition to the LOVE sculpture Indiana’s sculpture “ONE
Through ZERO (The Ten Numbers) ” is also on display.
The Number sculptures were
originally executed between 1980 and 1983.
Each number represents a different phase of a person’s life from birth until death –
starting with one, ending with zero.
Indiana credited his enduring interest in numbers to the formative experience of moving households multiple times as a child,
having lived in twenty-one different homes by the age of seventeen.
“Numbers fill my life,” the artist once said.
“They fill my life even more than love.”
“We are immersed I numbers from the moment we are born.”
Cheers!
PJ
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