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WORLD LINES: MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF SPIRIT AND REASON, IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER by Kathleen Kasper-Noonan
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography
WORLD LINES: MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF SPIRIT AND REASON, IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography

WORLD LINES: MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF SPIRIT AND REASON, IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER

Artist
Year1999
Classification sculpture
Medium bronze and stone
Dimensions48 x 120 in. (121.9 x 304.8 cm)
Credits Commissioned through the Art in Architecture Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location


  • The complete title of the work is "World Lines:  Mapping the Journey of Spirit and Reason", in memory of my father.  



    Kasper-Noonan's stone mural metaphorically depicts not only the journey that millions of immigrants took in coming to America, but also the journey that an individual takes to unify opposing internal forces.  Symbolically, the work is a map.  The center represents the destination (alternately, the United States or the integrated self).  The section on the right represents America's Western cultural and philosophical patrimony, while the element on the left symbolizes America's cultural and philosophical heritage from the East.  "World Lines: Mapping the Journey of Spirit and Reason" also functions as a memorial to the artist's father, an immigrant from the Czech Republic, from whom Kasper-Noonan inherited a love of working with tools.