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Embracing the day

By adamg on Mon, 01/20/2025 - 6:57pm
Girl at the Embrace on the Common

Stephen C. Bedell captured the scene at the Embrace on the Common on the most appropriate of days.

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
Holidays
Free tagging: 
Martin Luther King Day
Boston Common


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Comments

By Lee on Mon, 01/20/2025 - 7:04pm.

Even with snow.

By Rob on Mon, 01/20/2025 - 7:22pm.

No, this might be an improvement.
It looks like an abstract representation of Dr King face-palming in horror at what this nation is doing to itself.

By BostonDog on Mon, 01/20/2025 - 7:35pm.

I see what you mean although to me it just looks sugar frosted.

By Frelmont on Mon, 01/20/2025 - 9:37pm.

So emblematic of contemporary Boston Massachusetts. This monstrosity offends no one. (Save for our inner artists.) Can you imagine the beautiful Reverend King standing larger than life, or 1:1 in bronze on the Common? This work honors the artist not the subject. This work is self-congratulatory.

Maybe this version of “The Greendale Human Being” typifies the thinking and lack of courage of some civic leaders, but even if “The Embrace” expands symbolically beyond Mrs. King, honoring the man with a proper statue would embrace for more meaning than this blob.

“Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest night.” -Martin Luther King