Sculpture in the Traffic Circle

It takes a lot of people to get this going. Several years ago, in fact before the founding of Newton Booth Neighborhoods Association, a group of people in the neighborhood petitioned the City to do some traffic calming. After a long and arduous process the neighborhood ended up with a traffic circle (a big cement circle in the middle of the intersection at 26th & S) and a smaller barrier on T Street, as well as getting some parking changed from parallel to diagonal on some streets. Anyway, in spring of 2008, they brought the dirt for the plantings. A number of people from the neighborhood got together and added amendments until we had some really nice soil. Another neighborhood association gave us some iris to start and then later in the fall we planted some other drought-tolerant plants.
At one point when we were planting, or digging, or measuring – it was two years ago, I don’t remember) a woman named Kirsten Hoard came over and introduced herself and said she did outdoor sculpture and would we like one as a donation to the traffic circle. To make a two-year long story short, today was the day the City installed the sculpture, and we are the only neighborhood in town with a nice piece of public art in a traffic circle.
I was sort of surprised when I went back later this afternoon to see that these big concrete pillars are so high, but I guess they have to keep the sculpture high enough that drivers in cars can see below it. We have a few plants that need to be planted back in, and I suppose we will then get some other plants to fill in the center. We've kind of been waiting to finish the plantings until the sculpture was finished.
It's a little difficult to see from the pictures but there are four of these figures in various colors. The colors reflect light in different ways depending on how the light hits them, and one sculpture faces in each direction. It's a little difficult to get a good picture, but I see this last version as a welcoming introduction to the neighborhood