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Memory / Echo / Passage
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Memory / Echo / Passage

Artist / Maker ((American, b. 1946))
Date1994
OriginUSA
MediumCeramic tile, gold leaf, slate, brick, granite
DimensionsA- exterior tile urn: 241 1/4 x 205 5/16 in. (612.8 x 521.5 cm) B- exterior tile circle: 79 1/4 in. (201.3 cm) C- interior black slate wall: 104 x 389 1/2 in. (264.2 x 989.3 cm) D- interior urn in gold leaf: 53 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. (135.6 x 21.6 cm) E- interior circle in gold leaf: 22 3/8 in. (56.8 cm) F- interior floor circle in gold leaf and bronze: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
ClassificationsArchitecture, Architectural Ornamentation and Elements
Credit LineAn Iowa Art in State Buildings Project for Sweeney Hall. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
CopyrightUniversity Museums, Iowa State University prohibits the copying or reproduction in any medium of materials on this website with the following exceptions: Iowa State University students, faculty, and staff for educational use in formal instruction, papers, presentations and projects; limited non-commercial; and personal use that meets the criteria for fair use as defined in the U.S. copyright laws. Images from the University Museums’ collection cannot be used for publication, apparel/non-apparel merchandise, digital or commercial purposes without prior written permission from the University Museums, Iowa State University. Fair use does not apply to the extent that a license agreement or other contract controls reproduction or other use. University Museums and Iowa State University makes no representation that it is the owner of the copyright of the art object depicted in the photo materials and assumes no responsibility for any claims by third parties arising out of use of the photo materials. Users must obtain all other permissions required for usage of the art object and the photo materials. For more information, please see http://www.museums.iastate.edu/ImageReproduction.html
Object numberU94.66a-f
Status
On view
Label TextThis public work of art is divided between two locations at Sweeney Hall: the west exterior wall and the east wall of the interior lobby. The exterior wall features inlaid marble tiles in the brick facade to create a flask and circle design combined with the applied words: memory, restructure, reprocess, resequence, and recombine. The interior lobby restates the flask and circle motif in gold leaf on a gray slate wall while adding the alchemist’s goal of a circular pot of gold inlaid into the floor. The flask and circle are symbolic of the basic information system of chemical engineering. The flask symbolically contains chemical information and the circle symbolizes the chemical ring of elements.
Locations
  • (not entered)  Iowa State University, Sweeney Hall
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