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In what’s being called a “contrast” to the two white men who have statues in Times Square, a new 12-foot statue of a fictionalized overweight black woman has been erected at Broadway and 46th Street.
Why?
The Times Square Arts association presents a big word salad on its official website for the bronze statue (it will stay standing until June 17) created by artist Thomas J Price, but then, buried deep in the word salad, we get an interesting nugget.
“Installed at ground level on a wide low base, the work invites engagement with the hundreds of thousands of people who traverse the plazas each day, the woman in Grounded in the Stars cuts a stark contrast to the pedestaled permanent monuments — both white, both men — which bookend Duffy Square, while embodying a quiet gravity and grandeur,” the Times Square Arts group says on its site.
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And what are we reflecting on?
On artist Thomas J Price’s website, he paints a clearer picture as to what he was after with this work.
“…both her stature and her unbothered gaze are markers of status and authority; this is a figure who understands her worth,” Price’s website states.
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