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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty: Expressing the force and beauty of moisture in motion > “Woman and Fish,” Scottsdale Civic Center, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2011
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09-MAY-2011

“Woman and Fish,” Scottsdale Civic Center, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2011

This sculpture, by Abbott Pattison, stands upside down in a pond before Scottsdale’s City Hall. I photographed it so that the “V” shaped position of its legs repeats the “V” shape of the fountain just behind it. The backlighting abstracts the statue, turning it into a silhouette. It also allows the light to pass through the shower of water that rises and falls from the fountain, revealing individual droplets that are frozen in time at 1/1000th of a second.

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Phil Douglis18-May-2011 00:09
That is why Scottsdale put this delightfully incongruous statue in a fountain in front of city hall. It keeps things cool in the desert heat, and probably soothes the nerves of municipal workers who work here.
Tim May17-May-2011 23:55
This creates such a feeling of joy and refreshing coolness in a desert environment.
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