BOSTON — The annual reconfiguration of the Abstract Sculpture at Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway took place on Sunday, October 18.
With the assistance of a crane, the two halves of the sculpture, a split rhomboid dodecahedron made of stainless steel and aluminum, were lifted, pulled apart and reconfigured to create a new sculptural shape, symbolic of a new life.
As in previous years, the reconfiguration was overseen by Aurelian and Gary Mardiros of A&A Industries, which fabricated the sculpture as a gift-in-kind, and William Martin of the park’s care and maintenance team, with the participation of Brodmerkle Machinery Movers and Donald J. Tellalian, AIA, the park’s architect/designer.
The Abstract Sculpture, atop the Reflecting Pool, is dedicated to the lives lost during the Armenian Genocide and all genocides that have followed.
Its annual reconfiguration serves as a continuing reminder of resilience, renewal and the journeys of those who pulled away or were forced to pull away from their countries of origin and came to these Massachusetts shores, establishing themselves in new and different ways.
Conceived by Tellalian as an evolving work of public art, the Abstract Sculpture takes on 25 distinct geometric forms over a quarter-century before the sequence begins anew.
