The June 4 sculpture race was wildly successful at its site along Cambridge Parkway this year.
Daniel Rosenberg took first prize with Hatching, a multi-layered geometric form comprised of interlocking cardboard pieces. Daniel came in last place last year as a crew member of the square-wheeled Sisyphus sculpture. Try, try, and try…you succeed at last!

1st Place: Hatching blazes towards the finish line
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Second place was taken by two John Weidman sculptures from the original World Sculpture Racing Society races in the 1980s. Weidman’s stone and metal pieces, Push and Red-Breasted Sunbather, arrived in a dead heat. Push was piloted by James Herold, who won first place last year with another legacy piece, William Wainwright’s Wheel #2.

Tied for 2d Place: Red-Breasted Sunbather thunders toward the finish

Tied for 2d Place. Twins do their best to budge the cantankerous Push at the Exhibition.
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Third place went to Seismic Cartographer, an entry by B.U.’s Time-Based Sculpture Class, a piece which dripped colored water–from ice cubes!–onto paper moving along rollers driven by the wheels’ turns. The class was taught by PSR team member Dennis Svoronos.

3rd Place: Seismic Cartographer. Flag-bearer runs ahead to clear pedestrians from the way
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More photos and stories to come!

Scene from the Exhibition following the race
Images by C. Herold