Utah sculptor Gary Lee Price talks about the inspiration for designing the Statue of Responsibility — the 300-foot tower being proposed for the multi-billion-dollar Point of the Mountain development in Draper.
Gary Lee Price was inspired by his previous work and the writings of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl
“It’s about being there for each other, just on the simplest terms. That’s what I hope people would see in it and remember that it is about,” sculptor Gary Lee Price said. The board for The Point has made no announcement of any decision on whether to move forward with the proposalPrice said his design — two hands each gripping the other’s arm — was inspired by reactions to one of his previous sculptures,“The Ascent,” he said, depicts two Indigenous people climbing a precipice. The person higher up is reaching down to help the other person climb up.
Price said Frankl’s dream was, to “create a bookend” to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on America’s western shores. “Frankl said that, ‘We had our freedoms in Austria, Europe, we lost them due to irresponsibility,’” Price said. Covey’s wife collected Price’s art, so Covey sought out Price to design such a statue. Price created a 17-inch prototype of the statue from stainless steel — an image that, he said, exudes where responsibility starts.
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