"My goal for this tribute to writer and library namesake Ralph Ellison is to be visually exciting, emotionally engaging, and historically educational.

The sculpture represents a young likeness of Ralph Ellison emerging lifelike from the first page of his novel Invisible Man. The page is emerging from a Royal model typewriter that Ellison wrote with. I chose a young Ellison because it was in his youth that he had the strongest connection to Oklahoma City.

The page with Ellison’s likeness...