Cast bronze, stainless steel, cable

• Installed, 2002

Hanging within the main entrance of the new Leon Goldstein High School for the Sciences floats a sculptural meditation on the nature of profound discovery. The central image is a Great Horned Owl in flight, created by hundreds of precisely fixed and suspended cast bronze elements. The owl, emblematic of wisdom, is formed by a dense array of symbols culled from language and science. Like a comet, the form becomes visually more porous as it moves toward the tail, and eventually dissolves into a pa...