Visitors are invited to watch the de-installation and join deCordova in saying farewell to this popular sculpture on Thursday, April 19, 2012, 11 am–3 pm. Join us at 1 pm to celebrate Ozy with readings by the winning poetry contestants. A drop-in art activity related to Ozymandias will take place from 1–3 pm.
Douglas Kornfeld, Ozymandias, 2009, wood, paint, steel, 18' x 16' x 2,' Funded by the Nathaniel Saltonstall Arts Fund
Runners-up:
Category: Under 6
Sung by CJ, age 3
typed by mama
Big red man
Big red man
You are tall
You are tall, tall, tall
Big red man
Big red man
You are tall
Indeed, deed, deed
Category: Ages 6–10
Alice Moynihan
It was red, it was fine
it was pretty, it was divine.
It had a head it had a neck
It had arms it had part of it's body,
It was the red man I love
It's red, it’s tall
It’s the biggest one of all
What is this thing at the DeCordova?
Yes!
It’s the red man.
Category: Ages 11–18
Hillary E. Davis
Goodbye Ozymandias
Ozymandias,
The memories shine,
When we think of your role
As a male bathroom sign.
To understand, we go back
Not one century but two,
To a time ideas began,
A time when thoughts grew.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Created the tale
Of the mighty Ozymandias
Whom the Egyptians hail.
Douglas Kornfeld
Changes the scene,
Playing with our image
Of the sculpture that leans.
For its stay at deCordova,
Now's the end of the line.
A memory of a pharaoh,
A monument of our time.
Category: Over 18
Lisa Rogers
Oz.
Pinned, half — no, three-fourths — sunk, I have only the power you grant.
Must you, then, stand there,
Hands at your backs?
Do something.
Had I muscles, tendons, elastic fibers,
I would
Caress the dogs who venture near
Shrug to sweep the snow clear
Bless the bride — no, kiss her.
It takes all my strength to stand still.
