| Circle | |
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| Artist | Sadashi Inuzuka |
| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Granite, sand |
| Location | Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| 39°52′41.33″N86°8′39.51″W / 39.8781472°N 86.1443083°W | |
| Owner | Indianapolis Art Center |
Circle is a public artwork by Sadashi Inuzuka. The artwork is located in the ARTSPARK on the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Center (IAC) in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. [1]
Circle consists of a granite curved circle (reminiscent of a donut or liferaft) with an open center filled with a sandbox. [2] A pole comes from the center of the artwork with a metal arm with triangular teeth placed in a row on the bottom part of it. It turns around in the sand, like a zen garden, with sounds going on and off periodically.
The artwork was purchased with gifts from the Sheila Fortune Foundation, Sallie Mae Fund, June McCormick, Cinergy and EE Technologies. [1]
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To create the artwork Inuzuka, who is visually impaired, worked with students of the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired to create Circle. With the goal of providing ISBVI students with a place to gather at the ARTSPARK, the youth contributed ideas about the design of the artwork, leading to the tactile nature and recordings in the piece, which were also created by the students. [6] A groundbreaking was held on June 5, 2004 at the ISBVI to celebrate the creation of what would become the Nina Mason Pulliam Sensory Path, where Inuzuka's installation would be at the end of the path. On creating the artwork Inuzuka sought to "do something with texture so the blind children could feel it". [2]
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