Spotlight on 2009 Sculptures includes Robert Best’s sculpture Walls Did Talk. One of the winners of the 2009 Outdoor Sculpture Competition at the Bernice Garden. Walls Did Talk is located in the Northeast Corner of the Garden. Read more to find out about the artist and his sculpture.
Robert Best is the fourth generation of his family to work with metal. He has a BA in Psychology, and is a self taught artist. He lives in Little Rock, where he has spent the last several years sculpting a landscape of evergreens at his home, and more recently building walls of steel.
Walls Did Talk combines skeletons of steel to form walls. Through organic process, what remains of industrial waste are assembled into a cohesive whole. In this form they reveal a new meaning. As these particular walls have evolved in the studio, they reflect an optimistic view of the future for this place.
