This blog was meant to make me stop more and look closely. Well, as my friends and I were walking in Spokane along the river and enjoying Riverfront Park, a dicey looking strange young man told us to look at the bottom of the statue's foot. "Go on - he says - it will change your life." My friends and I found ourselves on the cement trying to peek under a shoe, feeling rather like fools, but here is what the screen shot on my phone showed - etched there by the sculptor. Hmmm. Made us all think! Transcend the Bullshit
Is this a Ken Spiering sculpture? I believe it is. We knew him at Gonzaga. The Transcend the Bullshit would make perfect sense! Ken was a student of art at GU in the 70's. Love that he put it on the bottom of the shoe and that you were able to find it through a 'young man's' help.
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DeleteYes! But the funny thing is, his good friend Harold Balazs was the model...and Harold is famous for MANY other sculptures with "Transcend the Bullshit" hidden on them. So they collaborated and hide it on the bottom of the shoe!
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