As usual, I supplied the mystery photo.
“06880” readers identified it.
And one of you added all the details the rest of us never knew.
Last week’s image of a sculpture just to the left of the main entrance to Staples High School – hidden partly behind a stone wall, just outside the art classrooms — was correctly noted by Stephen Moskowitz, Andrew Colabella and Diane Bosch.
But it took Ive Covaci to provide the back story. Ive says:
It is titled “Woman’s Head,” dates to circa 1979-1981, and was created by Joseph Goto (1916-1994).
Born in Hawaii, Goto was of Japanese descent, and studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. After WWII, he began sculpting with welded steel, a medium that he was drawn to because of his steel-working experience while serving in the U.S. Army. He taught at University of Michigan, Brandeis, Carnegie-Mellon, and RISD.
Goto writes: “Cutting the steel is like carving, as in the Matisse and Picasso cutouts. It’s not mechanical. It’s not a logical thing that you learn; it comes from long experience…It gives me a good feeling to build things. Click here for more information,
Take a look next time you pass by Staples or online here,
(Photo/Bob Weingarten)