“She looks like she wants to speak to the manager,” that’s how some netizens described a new bronze statue standing in the heart of Times Square, New York.
Titled “Grounded in the Stars,” the 12-foot-tall figure is the work of British sculptor Thomas J. Price and depicts an anonymous African-American woman dressed in everyday attire and posing with what some described as “quiet confidence.”
For the author, the statue is meant to “challenge who should be rendered immortal through monumentalization,” and spark a debate over monuments, however, the reception his work received might’ve been far from what he intended.
