Synchronicity III

The sculpture is an archway located on the sidewalk in front of the AHCMC offices in Silver Spring, MD. It is adjacent to a busy urban street and a parking garage. It is oriented east-west, with an eastern exposure and sheltered to the west by the garage. There is frequent pedestrian passage through the arch.The archway is based on a concrete frame with legs 10” x 14” and an opening approximately 5’ x 9’. The northern face of the archway is decorated with high-relief glazed ceramic sections in a pseudo Greco-Roman style with helical pilasters surmounted by a pediment bearing a bust of a satyr with grape clusters and vines. The southern face of the archway is also decorated with high-relief glazed ceramic elements, but with a more random style of polychrome organic and geometric shapes including impressions of leafs.The ceramic elements are attached to the concrete with standard hex-headed masonry screws (visible in four locations), which are covered with brown sanded mortar grout. The joints between the various elements are filled with the same grout.In the interior of the arch, the space between the two reliefs is filled with a strip of plywood covered with a thin film of brown sanded grout.The sculpture is signed “X. Minia” and “P King” etched into the ceramic on the south face of the eastern leg, and the date “2003” on the bottom of the south face, western leg. There is a bronze dedication plaque mounted with blind fasteners to the eastern leg.