Gift of the Wind

Gift of the Wind was commissioned in 1983 for artworks spread out across five different newly created subway stations. The first 20 artworks, including this one, were completed with a total cost of $695,000 USD, or one-half of one percent of the total construction cost of the Red Line Northwest Extension. Susumu Shingu designed and created his sculpture in tandem with Cambridge Seven Associates, the designers of the Porter subway station, as they designed and constructed the station. Shingu and the MBTA disagreed about how to inspect and lubricate the sculpture. It required $40,000 of repairs in the 1990s. ==References==