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In the daytime, the Stargazer is a dark black color so it's interesting how the light changes that.
With the addition of a new monumental stone and marble sculpture by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, the River Walk Public Art Garden now has its anchor.
In a statement about the artwork, which Reyes refers to simply as Citlali — meaning “star” in Nahuatl, the indigenous language of his native Mexico City region — the artist said he made the star form purposely ambiguous.
“The figure she holds and examines is an abstract five-pronged form, which could be one of the flint tools or arrowheads still found on the ground in the area today, or a fossilized shell from the region’s even deeper history under the ocean,” Reyes wrote. “Or it could also be a star like the ones that shine over San Antonio in the present — the same ones that have been contemplated by all peoples throughout the region’s human history, the same ones that inspire awe and wonder as they help us glimpse our place in relation to the universe and to time.”
The star and figure holding it, he continued, “represents San Antonio’s founding, formed as it is from an extraordinary and complex convergence of different human cultures and natural legacies.”
With the addition of a new monumental stone and marble sculpture by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, the River Walk Public Art Garden now has its anchor.
In a statement about the artwork, which Reyes refers to simply as Citlali — meaning “star” in Nahuatl, the indigenous language of his native Mexico City region — the artist said he made the star form purposely ambiguous.
“The figure she holds and examines is an abstract five-pronged form, which could be one of the flint tools or arrowheads still found on the ground in the area today, or a fossilized shell from the region’s even deeper history under the ocean,” Reyes wrote. “Or it could also be a star like the ones that shine over San Antonio in the present — the same ones that have been contemplated by all peoples throughout the region’s human history, the same ones that inspire awe and wonder as they help us glimpse our place in relation to the universe and to time.”
The star and figure holding it, he continued, “represents San Antonio’s founding, formed as it is from an extraordinary and complex convergence of different human cultures and natural legacies.”