Day 14: The Playstation Memorial

     Today's entry talks about a work entitled Trascendent-3GP.  Once again, it is located on the lakefront path, the same one with the explodng lightbulb and the blimp.  When you walk up to it, the first thing you notice is the fact that what stands in front of you is a black metal pillar with different geometric shapes draped over it.  Before we get to my take on it, let's look a little bit at the sculptor.  Ray Katz was born and raised in the Detroit area, and promply went into the Army upon his graduation from High School.  Taking the following from his artists' statemtent, " metal has remained best suited for my work because of its strength, malleability and inherent beauty...My sculpture is abstract. The abstract manipulation of form in space to create visual balance, using rhythm, action and movement, combine to create compositions that convey the implied energy found in my work."  However, the REAL thing that makes this work stand out like a sore thoumb even more is what the sculpture looks like.  It is a panted black piece of metal, that thas four colored shapes draped over it, in the shape of a square, a circle, and two straight bars of metal.  In other words, this looks like a blatant tribute to the Playstation video game system of old.  Don't take my word for it.  Look at the pictures on the Facebook page and judge it for yourself.