Abigail De’Ville: Light of Freedom

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Sculptor and installation artist Abigail DeVille reveals the ideas and inspirations behind the making of her public art commission, "Light of Freedom" (2020). The large sculpture of a scaffolded torch, with flames composed of dozens of blue mannequin arms, was motivated by the Black Lives Matter marches of summer 2020, when waves of demonstrators hooked arm-in-arm to rally against racial injustice amidst the threat of a global pandemic.