The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia will be installing a monumental sculpture by Enrique Martínez Celaya titled Tower of Snow, 2012. Rising fifteen-feet tall, the bronze sculpture depicts a boy on crutches, burdened by a house strapped to his back. As the artists describes, "The Tower of Snow represents a journey, and hope of returning or finding a new location for that ‘home.’ This home is, both, metaphoric and physical: place to become as well as a place to be. It might be expected that since I am an exile these questions examine that condition, and I am sure there is some of it in the work. However, the displacement that concerns me most is the shift from the glow the world had at moments during childhood to the moral opaqueness and disenchantment characteristic of contemporary experience. The light that once made the world mysterious, alive, and interconnected, was engulfed at some point along the way by the darkness of cynicism and over-familiarity.”

Here is a photo illustrating Tower of Snow in progress:

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