Lehman College
The City University of New York
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Wopo Holup
Intersections, 2003
bronze sculpture, inscribed bluestone, and pavers along walkway and plaza
Lehman College Communication Station at Gate 5 Goulden Avenue
Dormitory Authority of State of New York
Wopo Holup's Intersections, located at Lehman College Communication
Station walkway and plaza, is an interactive installation that draws on
the interplay of ideas from academic disciplines represented at the college.
Faculty and staff were invited to collaborate by contributing ideas, artwork,
and quoatations relevant to their fields. The range of offerings is historically
broad from ancient cave drawings to the first few bars of the musical
score of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The contributions include
mathematical equations and chemical formulas. Quotations range from Shakespeare
to Desmond Tutu. At the entrance to the walkway a bronze owl, a symbol
of enlightenment, perches on the wall. Other owls, silhouetted in the
pavers and inlaid in bronze, appear to cast shadows over the walkway.
The words and images are grouped around six main themes: The Heavens,
I, We, Words, Time, and Opposition. Quotations intersect bringing together
a dialogue.
