there was talk of keeping the aluminum giant on the lakefront, but it costs a million and sure the city is bankrupt so i think the giant will have to migrate. i think it yearns to, if metal yearns. he was in new york before, unless that was a double. i like better the notion of the giant wandering, watching the skies for drones or aliens. 
on the way home i found a giacometti book in the free bin and i remembered the aluminum giant's ancestry. i imagine giacometti would be pleased. 
we'll miss the recycled giant looking up for us. maybe we'll find ourselves looking up where he stood once he's gone. 

to render what the eye really sees is impossible.           -giacometti

what is the relationship of the figure to  the enveloping space, of man to the void, even of being to nothingness?                                 -peter selz

jean genet has giacometti's objects saying, i am alone, i am transfixed in a necessity which you cannot disturb. as i am what i am and without reservation, my solitude knows about your solitude.


each step is a study.