This hand is just one of many body parts that make up The Awakening, a sculpture currently located at the new National Harbor complex in PG county, just south of the beltway. (capital beltway) In whole, the piecies reveal a man who is essentially buried but who is begining to move out of dirt in which he lies. His hand and face are the most dramatic features, which imply a sense of urgeny to his actions. It’s tough to photograph that urgency becasue there are at least 90 children playing all over the statue at any time. However, this lonely hand seemed to do the job.
The sculpture was orginally located a few miles up the Potomac, DC at the point where the Potomac and Anacostia rivers meet.
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1 Gump // Mar 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Is it a zombie monument?
2 shelly // Mar 30, 2009 at 5:26 PM
here’s another statue called “the awakening”
http://www.campusexplorer.com/media/376×262/Villanova-University-0B9830AA.jpg
Although while I was at school there, I had no idea it had any other name than “The Oreo”.
(also, go ‘cats!)
3 Jeff // Mar 30, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Also, it may be a zombie statue.
4 LEC // Mar 31, 2009 at 9:55 AM
creepy
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