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Hyperallergic
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During her over five-decade career, Von Rydingsvard chipped away at enormous cedar beams to create a menagerie of massive sculptures, from an assembly of cones to a 17-foot-tall tornado-shaped behemoth made from 15,000 pounds of wood.

hyperallergic.comUrsula von Rydingsvard, Who Sculpted Monuments of Cedar, Dies at 84"She was like the sun. She was this force that pulled people in and kept them orbiting around her," said her studio manager.

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Fieldhouse New York
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15,000 pounds of cedar, coaxed into a tornado. Von Rydingsvard's gift is that scale never swallows intimacy — you can always feel the hand, the chisel, the years of decisions inside those enormous forms.