Liberty (Aurora)

Aurora, Colorado, United States

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"Liberty" is a 58-foot polished stainless-steel sculpture by Belgian artist Michael Benisty, installed in May 2025 in Hogan Park at Highlands Creek, part of The Aurora Highlands development in east Aurora, Colorado. Its developer reports it first appeared at Burning Man in 2024.

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Approximate location · 39.729° N, 104.667° W

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A mirror-polished, six-storey take on the Statue of Liberty now stands on the open plains at the eastern edge of Aurora, a long way from any harbour.

"Liberty" is by Michael Benisty, an artist from Antwerp, Belgium. It first appeared at the 2024 Burning Man festival and was stored in Reno, Nevada, before being installed over a weekend in May 2025, according to the developer of The Aurora Highlands. Developer Carla Ferreira had noticed the piece at Burning Man and then arranged to buy it. It is the largest work in an art walk through Hogan Park at Highlands Creek, a 100-acre park in the 4,000-acre master-planned community, and a Denver Gazette report says it stands nearly twice the height of the 32-foot Blucifer horse at Denver International Airport.

The statistics vary. The developer gave 37,000 pounds in May 2025, and The Gazette repeated that figure in November, while an earlier report (1 May 2025) described a 22,000-pound sculpture once rooted. According to the artist, the work is a modern interpretation of the Statue of Liberty symbolising unity, courage and hope; Benisty said it "goes beyond the political" and that people will interpret it in different ways.

The sculpture sits among about two dozen artworks on a two-mile walk that includes Daniel Popper's "Umi" and Benisty's 25-foot "Broken But Together". Ferreira has said she wants people to come in their own time, without museum hours or prices, and the park's works are described as free for the public to reach.

The area was still being developed in 2025, so expect a work in progress: in May the developer pointed visitors to 26th Avenue and a temporary construction road.

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A 58-foot mirrored stainless-steel sculpture among about two dozen artworks along a two-mile walk in Hogan Park. In November 2025 The Gazette described the park's art as free for the public to reach; the surrounding development was still under construction.

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East Aurora, in Hogan Park at Highlands Creek, near the future I-70 entrance to The Aurora Highlands. In May 2025 the developer pointed visitors to 26th Avenue and a temporary construction road, or through the park.

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Umi (Popper, Aurora Highlands)

Aurora, Colorado

Umi is a 21-foot sculpture by artist Daniel Popper in Hogan Park at Highlands Creek, the public art park in The Aurora Highlands, Aurora, Colorado. It shows a woman and a tree merging and was installed in August 2023.

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