New fountain to grace IUSB campus mallIUSB’s Langland was inspired by a Stonehenge-like setting | |
 | Two bronze figures standing atop Indiana limestone blocks will dominate a soon-to-be-constructed fountain outside the new Student Activities Center at IU South Bend. Designed by IUSB fine arts professor Harold “Tuck” Langland, the 7-foot high figures, now being cast at a foundry in Norman, Okla., will depict a man and woman who reach out to one another. They are joined by a thin bronze ribbon stretched across a gurgling pool as if one figure is helping the other across troubled waters.
The yet-to-be-named fountain, symbolizing education and cooperation, will change the landscape of the campus’ pedestrian mall drastically. Leading up to the fountain will be about 20 chunks of various sized Indiana limestone forming a curving arc through the mall. The rocks, which will be hand selected from a Bloomington quarry, will look as “if some superior prehistoric shaman laid them in place,” according to Langland. The idea for the series of rocks that define the fountain and its setting developed on a trip to Carnac, on the coast of France, said Langland. The area is known for huge, megalithic rocks left from a prehistoric time that some scholars say rival Stonehenge. The original purpose of the stones are unknown but are believed to have been used in some way to study the stars and sun.
Langland, who also is known for his sculpture of Herman B Wells on the Bloomington campus, said the fountain will be constructed this spring in the area just west of the new activities building. Final touches are scheduled for the early summer. |
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