Peabody Square Sculpture

The small park in Peabody Square is being enlarged and redesigned to welcome the residents and visitors of this increasingly lively and sophisticated crossroads of neighborhoods. The much-loved clock in the square requires a companion artwork that is elegant and friendly, and that relates to time. I have proposed a “Sleeping Moon” in bronze, floating on its back as if waiting to again patrol the heavens. The moon, after all, is the original timepiece, and it happens that I have made images of the moon for many years. The work will be modeled after one of the 28 small bronze moons in my series of 28 moons begun in 1980. Enlarged to eight or nine feet from chin to the top of the head, the “Sleeping Moon” will be cast, reworked, and patinated a dark green, then mounted on a stainless steel post rising from (and mostly hidden by) new shrubbery. The moon and the clock will relate sweetly and quietly in a “timeless” dance, and appreciators will find new seating at the base of the clock.

—Joseph Wheelwright

Peabody Square Sculpture in the Dorchester Day Parade

This phase of the Peabody Square Public Art Project was made possible by a planning grant from the Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund of the City of Boston.

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