Angel of the West, commissioned as the signature piece of the new Scripps
Research Institute's campus in Jupiter (Fl), is a large-scale sculpture
based on the structure of the human immune system's key molecule, the
antibody. Like tiny guardian angels, legions of antibodies constantly
protect us from illness and disease. The sculpture plays on the striking
similarity of both proportion and function of the antibody molecule and
the human body. My own representation of the antibody molecule surrounded
by a 12' diameter ring is evocative of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. My intention
is that my work will help reestablish the Renaissance notion that the natural
sciences constitute an integral part of culture.
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