Jurisprudents

The artwork consists of small component cast aluminum sculptural elements suspended by, and precisely located on, hundreds of high-tensile strength stainless steel wires attached to the support structure under the skylight in the courthouse atrium. The suspended elements form the image of two separate heads hung apart from each other, oriented face-to-face.  

The heads, one female and one male, are approximately twelve feet in height. Within this volume, special elements are suspended.  The heads are meant to represent sample jurors, and are thus allegorical. The heads' component elements are composed of twelve small portrait heads (each of which has been cast hundreds of times) representing the twelve jury members.  Both genders and various racial types are reflected.