Walk to the Sky With Jonathan Borofsky

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia

Staff Reporter

American artist Jonathan Borofsky's ``Hammering Man,'' a giant sculpture of a worker ceaselessly hammering away, has become a well-known landmark in Gwanghwamun in downtown Seoul.

Borofsky was back in Seoul to unveil a new sculpture ``Walking to the Sky,'' located in front of the Kiturami Homsys Co. building, Hwagok-dong, Gangseo-gu, that is expected to be another landmark. The sculpture features a row of seven life-sized people walking on a pole jutting into the sky, as three people look on from the ground.

``It's a symbol of all of humanity. All of us are connected together and walking to an unknown future,'' he said in a press conference Wednesday.

As a child, Borofsky was fascinated by the philosophical title of a Paul Gauguin painting, ``Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?''