OK, here’s another sculpture I wasn’t sure what it meant. Happens all the time. I’m better with history than abstract art.

Epoch explodes with 26 feet of steel art across the street from the Spy Museum at 9th & G Sts. N.W. Sculptor Albert Paley welded steel plates, then painted it a variety of bright colors to enhance a drab area of buildings. It was commissioned by D.C. Creates Public Art Program via the D.C. Commission on the Art and Humanities in 2004. It reminds me of “The Beckoning” at National Harbor.

Dolores Kendrick, a local poet laureate, wrote a verse to appear on the sculpture after seeing it.

“WE ARE
FLESH AND BLOOD
STEEL AND SKIN
STRUGGLING WITHIN
A LINEAR LIGHT
TOWARD ONE HEARTBEAT
THAT FORGES
A SACRED SPACE
AN ENTRANCE
TO OUR FRAGILE
DREAMS THAT RISE
UPON A MUSCLE
OF MEMORY
AND WIND.”