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Sleeping Moon
Artist:
Joseph Wheelwright
Location:
Ashmont MBTA Station Plaza, Dorchester Ave. & Ashmont St.
Location
Ashmont MBTA Station Plaza, Dorchester Ave. & Ashmont St.
United States
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Neighborhood:
Dorchester
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
2010
Medium:
Bronze
Collection:
Funders:
Description:
Sleeping Moon is a wonderfully imaginative sculpture that combines our knowledge of the moon’s actual cratered surface with our imagining we can see in that surface the face of the Man in the Moon. The sculptor, Joseph Wheelwright takes these elements and gives us a crescent moon resting on its side and dozing until it’s time to return to patrolling the night skies. The bronze Sleeping Moon, nine feet long and five feet in diameter, is the culmination of a series of moon studies Wheelwright has been making since 1980. It was installed in Peabody Square near the Peabody Clock in 2010. Putting moon and clock together lets our ancient natural timekeeper resonate with our invented timekeeping device.