UCSD Stuart Collection | San Diego Review

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The University of California, San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities.
Its campus is comprised of seven colleges starting in 1964 and has been expanding ever since.
We can see the grounds are being worked on shortly after the commencement ceremonies concluded on the fields below.
UCSD is home to the Stuart Collection. It was started in 1981 and extends the feeling of community and campus life. We'll see many of the sculptures in the collection and a few other interesting places here at UCSD.
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in 1797. At the age of nine she was sold with a flock of sheep for $100.
In 1826 she escaped slavery with her infant daughter and two years later was one of the first black women to win a court lawsuit against a white man to get her enslaved son back.
In 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth traveling the country and preaching for women's rights and the abolition of slavery.
She became the first African American woman to have a bronze bust honoring her in the United States Capitol building.
Here is a bust of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice and namesake for the third college at UCSD.
He watches over some structures like the Social Sciences Public Engagement building and the Catalyst built here in Sixth College at UCSD.
Hidden behind the reflections of the Jeannie Auditorium glass is a 22 by 62 foot mural titled "Same Old Paradise."
It has a snake referencing the Garden of Eden which turns into a road. There is a tiled collage with lines from "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. The orange groves have a five-point perspective, yielding a feeling of motion.
The mural was a temporary installation in 1987 at the Brooklyn Museum and was stored in a crate for 30 years. In the same way it references "On the Road", this mural traveled on the road to California for its revival here at UCSD.
Under the Tamarack Apartments of Muir College lies this granite "Green Table."
It's about the size of a large banquet table and has short poems and phrases inscribed into its surface and benches.
Some are encouraging such as "Push yourself to the limit as often as possible" or "Selflessness is the highest achievement."
Others are thought provoking stating, "There's nothing except what you sense."
The Green Table is available for anyone to sit, eat, or study while contemplating the texts written upon it.
In the trees between Mandeville Center and the Library Walk, you'll come across these blue screens that look like giant nets for a tennis court.
"Two Running Violet V Forms" is artwork meant to be influenced and partly concealed by its environment.
Each individual person will have a different perspective and see different parts of the piece at any given moment.
It's amazing these forms have stood for nearly forty years without causing hindrance to the surrounding nature.
Within the Cellular and Molecular Medicine Facility is a central area paved with a red and black slate design set into gravel.
This piece is simply titled "Terrace" and has benches and a table for people to rest or gather their thoughts.
Australian Willow trees line the outer edge and provide some shade from the sun.
Humans have invented ways to communicate over longs distances including smoke signals, carrier pigeons, the postal service, and flag semaphore.
What we know today as instant messaging or texting has its origins tied to May 24th, 1844.
In the year prior, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail secured funding from Congress to build a 40-mile electric telegraph line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.
The first electric telegraph message was sent on that wire in May of 1844.
Of the small group present, the Patent Commissioner’s 18-year old daughter Annie suggested a quote from the bible, "What Hath God Wrought!"
Morse sent the message to Alfred Vail in Baltimore who replied in kind just after receiving it. Here is a personal souvenir of the same message sent the next day from Vail to Samuel Morse.
"What Hath God Wrought" is the title of this 199-foot tower with an LED lantern on top. It constantly flashes out that first message through Morse Code.
Its height was made as high as the law would allow, and it towers over Urey Hall, where the annual Watermelon Drop is performed on campus.
The tower shows how far we have advanced in technology and communication and what we can accomplish in the future.
At the southern end of the oldest college on campus, Revelle College, is this group of gray granite blocks.
Their arrangements refer to architectural structures such as posts, columns, windows, doorways, and thresholds.
"La Jolla Project" built in 1984, has forms that can be seen in Stonehenge, although this may not be intentional.
The latter site in England was established over 5,000 years ago and was created in stages over the course of 1,500 years.
Carhenge in Nebraska more closely matches