Room 45 of 111 · LIBERTY ISLAND · 1886

The climb to the crown

The star fort, the pedestal, then the spiral inside the copper figure up to the twenty five windows of the crown, the harbor and the city through them.

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The climb to the crown

The Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, the history

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886, a gift from the people of France. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the copper figure, and Gustave Eiffel engineered the iron frame inside. Richard Morris Hunt designed the pedestal, which stands inside the star shaped walls of Fort Wood. The crown has 25 windows and seven rays, and visitors reach it by a spiral stair.

Source · National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument ↗

What the room is built from

The eleven pointed star of the old fort, the granite pedestal, the green copper robe, the raised torch, the seven rayed crown, the iron armature inside and the double helix stair. Mood: harbor morning. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.

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