Terry Karpowicz's "Pyramus and Thisbe Rising Over Snowy Peaks"

Terry Karpowicz's "Pyramus and Thisbe Rising Over Snowy Peaks"

M. A. Lipschultz donated this geometric sculpture to NIU in 1990 in memory of his wife Sarah Lipschultz. Terry Karpowicz, a Chicago artist, constructed the piece from Vermont Berry Granite and Southern Yellow Pine. His inspiration for the piece comes from a Greek myth that tells the story of two lovers who will forever see each other but never touch. For Karpowicz, it is a landscape piece--the granite a metaphor for mountains, the rings metaphors for heavenly bodies, and the timbers metaphors for rays from the sun. The sculture replaced another by Karpowicz entitled "Six Mile Bottom" which sustained excessive damage in a windstorm.