Bicentennial Dawn, Philadelphia

Louise Nevelson in 1975 presented Bicentennial Dawn as a place and environment shaped by her search for a new seeing, a new image, a new insight, and a new consciousness. She located that search in both objects and in-between places, in dawns and dusks, the objective world and heavenly spheres, and the spaces between land and sea. She held that human creations arrest the secret images found in nature, and conceived Bicentennial Dawn as existing between night and day, solid and liquid, and temporal and eternal substances. She saw it as both a monument to the past and the spores of the future, with contemplation serving as the means to extend awareness in a contemplative experience seeking the awareness already present in the human mind, where the inner and the outer equal one.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States