The Agora “sculptural instillation” stands on the south end of Grant Park near the Field Museum. It was created by Magdalena Abakanowicz who, according to the Internet, “was deeply affected by World War II and the forty-five years of Soviet domination that followed. In her journals, she writes that she has lived… in times which were extraordinary by their various forms of collective hate and collective adulation. Marches and parades worshiped leaders, great and good, who soon turned out to be mass murderers. I was obsessed by the image of the crowd … I suspected that under the human skull, instincts and emotions overpower the intellect without us being aware of it.'”
It’s also on my list of things to do in Chicagoland.
There are 106 headless torso in the group.
Since the actual “thing to do” is to get my photo taken with the sculpture …
