Going global: there’s a lot riding on the shoulders of this new sculpture by Cinthia Joyce
Cinthia Joyce and Atlas. Photo Not long ago, Cinthia Joyce rolled up her garage door and a couple of dozen people peered in and then surged closer for a better look. Minding his own business, Atlas shrugged, and continued to hold up the universe. In the middle of last year – like the gods, I lose track of time – we published a story in these pages about Joyce and the commissioned statue she had undertaken for a client in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was quite a page-turner, as my stories usually are, but it ended in true cliffhanger fashion: “To be continued…” Well, now the wait is over. Back then, Atlas was a maquette, a clay model not much bigger than a squirrel. Now he’s a rugged, handsome, lean, muscular man, bronze through and through, and approaching life-size. The model, Arthur Davis, was an acrobatic gymnast for Cirque du Soleil. Not surprisingly, then, it’s an athletic pose, closer to a dancer’s than a weightlifter’s. [scrollGallery id=275] Hold it right there Credit for the unique pose, Joyce says, goes to Andrew Glenn, the man who commissioned the statue. When she asked him what he had in mind, he himself assumed the stance he’d been envisioning. “It was a really difficult…
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