The Lingua is a sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
The Lingua is a sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Lingua is composed of two 16' tall cylinders, with text cut with a water jet cutter in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Ethiopian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, and Iroquois. [1] The texts are historical texts from as far back as 1400 BC. [2]
The Russian-language section is a quote from Leo Tolstoy 's 1869 novel War and Peace (Volume 3, Part 1, beginning of chapter XXII).
The Chinese-language section is a piece of Chinese calligraphy Lantingji Xu written by Wang Xizhi.
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