Houston spent $1.3M on the largest moving sculpture in the world. Why doesn't it move?
It was billed as the largestin the world, with 70-feet wide wings flapping over streaming jets of water. It also was the most expensive piece of art ever commissioned by the city, paid for with revenues from Houston First Corp., the city's convention arm.
Michael Heckman, the CEO of Houston First Corp., told City Council this month the board decided to quit trying to repair the sprawling sculpture. It no longer will be kinetic. Among those mechanical issues: A snag involving helm joints disrupted the movements in its first year. The city later had to call in oil rig engineers to help perform maintenance on the motor. There were issues with the security system — a laser-powered perimeter — that stopped the movement when someone tried to touch the statue. And just before the COVID-19 pandemic turned downtown into a ghost town, one of the metal welds connecting the statue's rotating spine to its base snapped.
Abodeely and Heckman say they believe the statue will remain a draw even in its newly permanent static state. It still is common to see selfie-taking residents and tourists posing in front of it, and it is one of the convention area's most popular Instagram sites."I do think it's fair to say what we wanted out of the piece was bigger than what we got.
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