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Forgotten Language, (sculpture). Artist:  Alavi, Sayed, sculptor. Title:  Forgotten Language, (sculpture). Dates:  April 1994. Copyrighted 1995. Dedicated March or April 1995. Medium:  Sculpture: aluminum wire mesh. Description:  Eight banners, each bearing phrases, are strung across the ceiling of the Palo Alto Civic Center lobby in a criss-cross pattern. The banners are bolted to the ceiling at each end. Subject:  Abstract Object -- Written Matter Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Palo Alto Site-specific Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, Arts & Culture Division, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto, California 94303 Accession Number: S.01.95 Located Palo Alto Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Lobby, Palo Alto, California 94303 Remarks:  Site-specific work commissioned for the Civic Center by the City of Palo Alto Public Art Commission. The work was created in April 1994, and was completed, copyrighted, and dedicated in March or April 1995. A nearby glass plaque reads: S.01.95/"From its beginnings on the rude walls of caves, art has given form to the most cherished values of civilizations." Albert Elsein 1927-1995/Dedicated to his memory./FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE/I learn to make my mind large as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Maxine Hong Kingston/Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere..../Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly./Martin Luther King, Jr./How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment/before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank/A nation is never finished...it has to be recreated in each/generation by believing, caring men and women. John W. Gardner/Concept by Seyed Alavi/Installation by Sayed Alavi and Colin Wood/Commissioned by the City of Palo Alto Public Art Commission, 1995. References:  SOS Assessment Award, 1997. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 71500394   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 71500394 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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