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...plazas from San Antonio to Seattle, some 120 of Johnson's life-size sculptures, many sporting colored clothing, capture the everyday details of ordinary citizens down to their crumpled brown bags and untied shoelaces. They portray carpenters, businesswomen, students, engaged in such activities as talking on a park bench, leaving a tennis court or simply scratching their backs. "We are surrounded by monolithic towers and cold glass in our cities," says Johnson. "My work celebrates mini-heroics; normal-size people reclaiming their humanness...
Explains Johnson: "One of my fellas sitting on a bench says, 'Come on in, celebrate the recess, the lunch break; take a moment and use this spot.' " Touching and interacting with the sculptures are not only encouraged, but are unstoppable. Children sit in their bronze laps; on chilly nights adults drape sweaters over their shoulders. In the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, in Trenton, N. J., hundreds of passers-by have sat in the empty seat across the chess table from the bronze figure of a perplexed loser to have their picture taken. In southeast Washington, neighborhood youths...
...boss was my uncle." He spent two decades painting in oils. In 1968 he turned to sculpture because of a recurring daydream: "I wanted to see a fellow on a bench reading a paper, but I didn't know why." The Newspaper Reader was his first bronze work, and it still sits in seven locations...
...playground twelve years ago, in the spring, around noon. The boy was five. He had a basketball, which he dribbled off his toes half the time, and which he kept shooting at the hoop-underhand, both hands, straining to reach the rim. The father sat on a bench and watched. The boy kept at it. Then some bigger boys sauntered over, snatched the ball away and shot around, leaving the five-year-old watching...
...tennis teammates lost a single Ivy meet, to eventual champion Columbia the men's track team jumped into action on the new million dollar outdoor track, the men's lacrosse squad including ex-iceman RALPH HARTMANN exceeded everyone's expectations by going 86 LISA BLACK came off the bench to spark the women's lacrosse team's return to the NCAA quarterfinals, sophomore GERRIRUBIN pitched her heart out but the softball team wound up fifth in the Ivies, men's lightweight crew (from left, EDD ELEMINC JEFF NICKEL, BEN COLBURN, GREG WILLIAMS, PAT BENNETT, PAUL NATHRSON, JUSTIN KERMOND, JAMES SHELDON...