(Five sculptures patterned after James Thurber's drawings)
Dimensions vary
Columbus Limestone

In celebration of the author's 100th birthday, Columbus' Thurber House (the author's childhood home) commissioned five sculptures (one of which is a fountain) to adorn a reading garden. In an attempt to capture the two-dimensional quality of the original cartoon, each sculpture was "compressed". The water for the fountain emanates from the book the dog is "readinmg", cascades across the natural rock, and dissappears into the gravel substarte. This was accomplished by placing a heavy-duty stainless steel grate atop the concrete reservoir under the fountain. The stainless grate supports the gravel, but allows the water to pass into the system. This is a very cool technique, and should be utilized more; so far as we know, this technique was invented by Omega.

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