Portlandia (statue)
Portlandia is the name of a statue by the American artist Raymond Kaskey (* 1943) located in September 1985 above the entrance to the Portland Building in Portland , Oregon, which opened in 1982 .
The sculpture is based on the seal of the city and shows a woman crouching on the pedestal, dressed in ancient style. In her left hand she holds up a trident , while she extends her right arm down in front as if welcoming the visitors. Attached is a plaque with a poem dedicated to Portlandia by Portland-based poet Ronald Talney.
At 11 meters high it is after the Statue of Liberty is the second largest of copper produced plastic in the United States . It weighs around six tons. If the woman were standing, she would be 15 meters high.
It looks out onto a narrow, tree-lined street with rather little traffic. The suggestion has been made several times to move the sculpture to a more visible place. However, the artist refuses. He created the sculpture for exactly this place.
Kaskley regards the sculpture as his intellectual property. The city therefore has no right to manufacture and sell key rings, T-shirts, etc., as is the case with the Statue of Liberty. That is one of the reasons for the low level of awareness of the work of art.
Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′ 56.7 " N , 122 ° 40 ′ 44.5" W.