"Monument"

The Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts has commissioned Douglas Kornfeld to build the sculpture "Monument". The 18 foot high plywood artwork will be completed in Summer 2008.

The sculpture was inspired by images of ancient Egyptian monuments made during the Napoleonic invasion of North Africa. At the time sand had covered much of the Sphinx and Giant statues at Abu Simbal in upper Egypt.

This sculpture will portray, in monumental scale, a contemporary icon representing “Man.” If one argues that the symbols of a culture reflect its aspirations and ideals, then this banal and generic figure used so ubiquitously throughout the world, built at monumental scale, raises important questions about symbols and contemporary culture.