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Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, was the first to identify last week’s photo, “Interesting sculpture” – as “Motherhood” by Nora Valdez. He writes she is “an international award-winning sculptor from Argentina. It is located at the corner of Lady and Gadsden Streets, right in front of Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard, in Columbia. It was originally created at The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland, Vermont, in 2010. Since then it has traveled to New Hampshire Southern University, then to Trinity Church in Boston, exhibited at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts until it found its current (and permanent) home in Columbia as part of the public art collection of the city.
“The fact that it has traveled so much and so far to find a permanent home is inspiring as ‘Motherhood’ is an 18-ton piece of marble that was crafted to represent the weight, struggle and responsibilities that an immigrant woman bears alone and yet is able to carry on. It does not matter what life brings to her, she always stands strong and proud – an immigrant in a foreign land.”
Others who correctly identified it were George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Jay Altman of Columbia; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and Frank Bouknight of Summerville. Thanks to Randy Herald of Lexington for sending the photo.
>> Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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