The Corporate Goddesses

Everyday I look at these statues. I've always wondered about their meaning but never looked too far to find it. I've also known that this was going to be a blip since I started thinking about a picture a day. I've just been waiting for good weather. Depending on the interpretation maybe I should have waited for a very foggy day. Anyway I decided to actually find the real information about these....

Architect John Burgee, who along with the late Johnson commissioned the statues as a "whimsical flourish" for the building at 580 California St., says their intrigue will make the figures endure.

"Look at any classic statue, it's a portrait of someone. It leaves no mystery," said Burgee, who lives in Santa Barbara. "But the corporate goddesses elicit all kinds of interpretations, from heaven and hell to the ghostly nature of financial work.

The artist was Muriel Castanis

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