"Ozymandias" - 2009
Materials: Laminated wood and steel, 20’ x 18’ x 1’-6”
Location: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln. MA
Commissioning Agency: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
This sculpture, titled “Ozymandias,” depicts an iconic male symbol appearing to sink into the ground. It draws inspiration from 19th-century images of half-buried Egyptian monuments and is directly informed by Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous poem Ozymandias, which speaks to the impermanence of power and human legacy:
Link to complete poem by Shelley >>
A related work in Wuxi, China >>
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“Ozymandias” was also featured in the national comic strip Zippy the Pinhead on October 15, 2009, underscoring its cultural resonance beyond the art world.