Word: snaking
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...dancers perform in the head's ugly proscenium of a mouth, a hint that Andersen felt that femininity itself was a trap. In one collage that he made for Agnete Lind, the child of Louise Lind, one of his early unrequited loves, a snake shares the page with one of Andersen's own book covers, a sketch of an audience and a blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became...
...work's completion like an unveiling. Last week Tony Smith was busy chauffeuring selected friends across the Hudson and through the back streets of Newark to the cement-block building where his new creation had taken final form-a 16-ft., six-ton steel structure called The Snake...
Nicknamed "Snake," the sculpture looms massive and masculine, dwarfing everything in sight. Built in two pieces, it has a manhole on the top for workmen to descend inside for repairs and dismantling. Wandering around the piece, Tony recalled with paternal pride the day in 1962 when he completed the original 46-in. model. "As soon as I finished it, I realized the piece had a sense of movement, like a little dragon or a snake," he said. "Then I remembered John McNulty's short story Third Avenue Medicine, in which he describes how bartenders watch for a vein...
...plywood maquette sat on Smith's back porch for seven years until New York State commissioned the piece in steel for the new capital mall in Albany. The model went off to the fabricators, and not until one evening this summer did Smith see Snake again. On his way home for dinner, he peered in the factory's doorway and saw two huge pieces, one on the floor, the other hanging from a crane, hovering six inches over it. "They fitted together like a watch case," he remembers...
...Snake's present incarnation is only temporary. Soon it will be dismantled and stored away for two years until the mall is ready. But if something should happen to the pieces, it would not be a total loss. Smith could just pick up the phone and order another "Snake." Industrial Welding could oblige...