Lingua (sculpture)
The Lingua is a sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Sculpture
Lingua is composed of two 16' tall cylinders, with text cut with a water jet cutter in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Ethiopian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, and Iroquois.[1] The texts are historical texts from as far back as 1400 BC.[2]
The Russian-language section is a quote from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace (Volume 3, Part 1, beginning of chapter XXII).
gollark: I updated TWRP and now it lets me run shell commands on it in recovery mode, *but* it won't decrypt the data partition right.
gollark: It only registers touch very occasionally.
gollark: Surprisingly, no.
gollark: Well, half my friends have *eventually* gotten round to using it.
gollark: ... yes.
References
- "Jim Sanborn: Sculptor, Photographer, Artist". Elonka. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
- "Walter E. Washington Convention Center Art Collection". Washington Convention Center Authority. 2009-09-06. Archived from the original on February 10, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
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