Tony Tasset, an American artist born in 1960, is considered one of the most inventive sculptors working in the United States. Since the mid-1990s, he has created increasingly ambitious sculptures. Deer, made in 2015, takes the form of a nervous and pensive monumental fawn ready to move. Its surreal presentation as a supersized deer emerging from woodland dramatizes the relationship between being human, the identity of sculpture, and their respective places in nature. Tasset called Deer a work representing the highest conceptual ambitions with a delightful populist twist. Its scale suggests that nature is out of balance in today’s urban and suburban spaces and points to human impact on other species. The work also reflects the park itself, where a deer population lives quietly across 105 acres, and it explores how people collectively dwell in the landscape while celebrating the environment created when art frames nature.