Let Love Endure

Philadelphia Public Safety Building

I have created a sculpture for the new Philadelphia Public Safety Building, in the historic Art Deco tower that was the home of the Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper. It is a truly heroic scaled version of a badge studded with about 1400 actual badges of all the ranks.

The sculpture was designed in 2019. Then, in a world already in turmoil from the pandemic, the slaying of George Floyd—and so many others—put a tremendous strain on the trust that we need to exist between the police and the community. I set about transforming my design to reflect what the badge should ideally stand for:

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