Thataway Again
Posted on July 24, 2008, by Danielle Lennon
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Henry Saxe is an internationally recognized sculptor whose works are in the collections of every major gallery and museum in Canada. Born in Montreal, he lives and works in Tamworth, ON. His works have been displayed in Kingston on numerous occasions but one work that is a constant is his sculpture Thataway Again which sits on Queen’s campus just outside Harrison-LeCaine Hall on Queen’s Crescent.
As a music student who spent most of my undergrad in Harrison-LeCaine, I remember walking past the strange steel sculpture many times and wondering what it was all about. Henry Saxe’s main inspiration comes from scrap materials that give the suggestion of something bigger. Although his works are generally quite methodical and orderly, Thataway Again has a more haphazard quality and gives the feeling of folding or breaking down.
Created in 1979, Thataway Again came out of a series of works by Saxe from the late 1970s and early 1980s and was purchased by Queen’s with Canada Council and Gallery Association matching funds in 1982. So go for a stroll past this sculpture and then make your way over to the Etherington Art Centre to take a look at two other Saxe pieces, Log 2 and Three is a Number of One.
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You mean the druken picnic table!