Eve's Apple

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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Eve's Apple is a 1998 painted-steel sculpture by Edwina Sandys that the City of Windsor lists under the Windsor Sculpture Park on the Detroit River. The City gives its size as 365 x 177 x 150 cm and describes a feminine hand, built from three steel planes, holding a bitten apple.

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Eve's Apple is a steel hand holding a bitten apple that the City of Windsor lists under the Windsor Sculpture Park, along the Detroit River. The City credits it to Edwina Sandys and dates it 1998.

The City's page for the work gives the material as painted steel and the size as 365 x 177 x 150 centimetres, without saying which figure is height, width or depth. It describes a "very feminine hand with its polished fingernails" constructed out of "three separately cut planes of steel", with the apple "held almost proudly in the fingertips, showing off the marking of its bite". Seen from the side, the City says, the work reads at first as flat lines, and its depth is fullest when the viewer looks straight into the centre of the hand.

The City frames the piece around the biblical story, saying it refers to the moment just after Eve takes her bite, when knowledge is gained and innocence is lost, and, separately, describes the multi-layered surface as creating a perpetually shifting interplay of light and shadow. It adds that the work shows Sandys' "continued interest in positive and negative space" and that "like most of Sandys' work, Eve's Apple is defined by what is missing".

The City's park page says the park lies along the Detroit River between the Ambassador Bridge and Festival Plaza and holds over 31 large-scale, internationally acclaimed sculptures. The City's park page (undated) describes the sculptures as "an accessible and free outdoor gallery, open every day of the year". That statement is on the park page; the page for Eve's Apple gives no location within the park.

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Listed by the City of Windsor under the Windsor Sculpture Park, which the City places along the Detroit River between the Ambassador Bridge and Festival Plaza. The work's own City page gives no position within the park.

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The City of Windsor's park page (undated) describes the sculptures as a free outdoor gallery, open every day of the year. That statement is about the park; the page for Eve's Apple gives no access statement of its own.

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