This fourteen
minute documentary follows the remarkable and labor-intensive creation of
Ursula von Rydingsvard "URODA," a site specific sculpture
commissioned to highlight the entrance to the new Andlinger Center for Energy
and the Environment at Princeton University.
The
nineteen-foot-tall work is von Rydingsvard’s first sculpture made primarily of
copper. Her full-sized maquette, created using stacked, texturized cedar beams
shaped with a circular saw, took six months to build. The finished piece—made
of more than 3,000 hand-pounded copper pieces—was fabricated by the metal
artist Richard Webber and a team of skilled craftspeople.
Princeton
University is home to one of the most significant public art collections in the
United States. This most recent addition to Princeton’s outdoor sculpture
collection was installed in Fall 2015 and dedicated in spring 2016 with the new
building, designed by architects Tod Williams, Princeton class of 1965, and
Billie Tsien.