COUNCIL APPROVES 6-FOOT TREE SCULPTURE.Byline: Mary Mary, the mother of Jesus Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos). Her name is the Hebrew Miriam. Lou Aurelio Daily News Staff Writer The Burbank City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve an artist's plan to build a 6-foot bronze sculpture bronze sculpture. Bronze is ideal for casting art works; it flows into all crevices of a mold, thus perfectly reproducing every detail of the most delicately modeled sculpture. It is malleable beneath the graver's tool and admirable for repoussé work. of a symbolic ``tree of life'' at the proposed Stough Canyon Nature Center site. ``We love it,'' Councilman Bill Wiggins William David Wiggin (born June 4, 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He has held the seat of Leominster since the 2001 election. said after the meeting. ``It combines all of the aspects of the area - streams, water, flora and fauna fauna All the species of animals found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Five faunal realms, based on terrestrial animal species, are generally recognized: Holarctic, including Nearactic (North America) and Paleartic (Eurasia and northern Africa); - all into one piece.'' The City Council approved building the nature center in 1996 in the canyon above the Castaway Castaway Arden, Enoch shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316] Bligh, Captain commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit. restaurant in the Hill District. Construction is expected to begin soon. The council already had agreed to spend $50,000 for the artwork for the center at the recommendation of the Art in Public Places Committee. The committee selected artist Andrea Favilli, who is known for a bronze sculpture called ``The Cameraman'' located near the Smokehouse restaurant in Burbank. The ``tree'' will be 2 feet in diameter, with water trickling down the sides of the sculpture. It will be located at the entrance plaza to the Stough Canyon Nature Center. Favilli, who was born in Rome, said his sculpture will contain three elements - water at the base, land in the middle and sky at the top. And it will be interactive, Wiggins said. ``The artist wants people to touch it,'' Wiggins said. |
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