A Summer Like No Other

The past several months has separated many of us from our families, friends, colleagues and others. In addition to this form of isolation, too much of the rhetoric we hear every day serves to divide us and not unite. Whenever I look at Plensa’s work, I’m reminded of the need to reflect on a more collective humanity. He says: “We are each a country, an island . . . linked and separated by an ocean. As far as we are so different and unique, we can collaborate, we can exchange information, but never compete.” Talking Continents poetically brings together individual elements into a larger installation leaving the viewer to contemplate both inwardly and globally. – Liz Bower