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ambiguous on purpose. According to the San Diego Port, the work reminds spectators that "marriage requires a balance between two people with different interests, tastes and backgrounds" and represents the "dichotomy of marriage, expressing the romantic and the melancholy".
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in 2005, depicts two diamond engagement rings and stands nearly 30 feet tall. The diamonds, illuminated and tilting away from one another, are composed of translucent plexiglass boxes, steel and aluminum. The
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was installed along the waterfront at Laurel and Harbor Drive in San Diego, California.
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is one of several sculptures by Oppenheim that has been installed in Vancouver:
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Oppenheim, who often declines to explain his works, kept the meaning of
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were taking place around the time the work was installed in Vancouver.
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an upside-down aluminum church, was installed along the waterfront in
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