Montefiore Children's Hospital
The Carl Sagan Discovery Center
3415 Bainbridge (between Gunhill Road & East 210th Street)


Tom Otterness
Suspended Mind, 2002
bronze
Montefiore Children's Hospital

 

 

Suspended Mind, a monumental installation in The Carl Sagan Discovery Center in Montefiore Children's Hospital, includes an array of Tom Otterness' signature cartoon-like figures, frolicking on and around a Foucault pendulum. The pendulum, invented by Leon Foucault in 1848, moves with the rotation of the earth. An inverted head with a smiling face gently swings over a map of the world. This whimsical bronze sculpture provides an entertaining focal point as well as a science demonstration.

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