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For years I've noticed the concrete bench with mosaic tiles on the corner of Broadway and Avenue U. It wasn't until this evening that I noticed that the back of the bench features faces, hands and feet. The origin of the public art project is unknown. The timing of the photo is interesting -- this evening my friends and I created our own glass mosaic project at the Glassy Alley.
2024 Broadway
Lubbock, Texas
Sandy, I worked with (I think) Ted Adams on this project in 2001 or 2002. He and some of his students made the bench as part of a summer youth program. After it was completed, Citibus actually got a few complaints that it was satanic, and asked that it be removed. When I asked for specific things that were "satanic" the people complaining declined to reply. And I, in turn, declined to remove the bench.
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