Arts & Leisure

A swinging sculpture in Monkton invites reflection

ROSALIE D. GAGNE releases her newest sculpture “Field Pendulum” during an opening reception on Friday evening at the Gordon Sculpture Park on the Willowell land in Monkton. The piece is the third and final installation of a six-year partnership between the Neuberger Museum of Art in New York and The Willowell Foundation. PHOTO / TASHA BALL

A pendulum swings — back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes a pendulum is used as a metaphor to explain large shifts: Democrats one year, Republicans the next… environmental stewardship one year, drill-baby-drill the next… Back and forth we go… you get the idea. Now if you put a point on that pendulum and let it draw, what shape would you see?