To Serve and Protect | Part 2

Hi I'm Eldon Garnet the artist of the 3 part sculpture "To Serve and Protect". We are now standing beside the boy pulling an obelisk on a wagon. You can pat his head, you see it's becoming a little shiny from people patting this gentle boy's head. He's pulling an oversized obelisk on an oversized wagon. And he's just a young boy, just a young child. He's not a boy or a girl, he's not white or is he black or Asian, he's an allegorical figure of a young person pulling an oversized load. And on this wagon is this 20 foot granite obelisk. What does the obelisk represent? The obelisk has a long history of symbolic meaning. And it has first an foremost a symbol of power. It was used by ancient Egyptians to signify their strength and their markers to the entrance to the grand buildings. And it also has a long history of being stolen. It is not uncommon that all these Egyptian obelisks have been removed from Egypt mostly to museums or in front of other buildings. And so there's this notion of theft involved in an obelisk also, and power. Why is he pulling this? Where is he pulling it? These are questions you should ask yourself. What about the police woman in the central square? The plinth is empty waiting for something. Could it be this obelisk that this boy is pulling towards her?

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