Boston recently got its own good luck charm, 'Amulet,' a 19-foot-tall tangle of organic spires installed in City Hall Plaza and embedded with the wishes, hopes, and prayers of residents from across the city. The public artwork, by artist Rhea Vedro ' also a lecturer and metals artist-in-residence in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) ' was installed on the north side of City Hall, in a newly renovated stretch of the plaza along Congress Street, in October and dedicated with a ribbon cutting on Dec. 19. 'I'm really interested in this idea of protective objects worn on the skin by humans across cultures, across time,' said Vedro at the event in the Civic Pavilion, across the plaza from the sculpture. 'And then, how do you take those ideas off the body and turn them into a blown-up version ' a stand-in for the body'' Vedro started exploring that question in 2021, when she was awarded a Boston Triennial Public Art Accelerator fellowship and later commissioned...
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