This sculpture was installed when the Bank of America opened its world headquarters in 1969. The magnificent sculpture is by Masayuki Nagare. When the sculpture was installed it sat flat on the marble plaza surface.
The most extraordinary quality of this brilliant sculpture was the proportion it gave to the giant 52 story building next to it. The building was like a man and the Nagare was like a pebble.
I started bending down to look are the pebbles on the ground after I first saw the sculpture. I suddenly began seeing small pebbles all around me on the ground.
What I learned was that pebbles never sit flat on the ground. Pebbles are always at a slight angle to the ground because they never have a flat bottom. I learned about the world of pebbles around me from the Nagare sculpture.
Now the people with no art sense, no intelligence, no taste have made the Nagare appear to be flat bottomed by putting it in a grass cemetery casing. (Photo on the right)
To me this miss treatment of a great piece of art is a travesty. The lack of a public outcry goes a long way to explain why San Francisco is so lacking in a first class fine art scene.