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62 feet of resilience

jamaica-gleaner.com · 4h · first reportShare

WESTERN BUREAU: Businessman Christopher Issa has commissioned what will become one of Jamaica’s tallest sculpted monument – a massive 62-foot work by renowned Jamaican sculptor Scheed Cole that is as much about the devastation of Hurricane Melissa as it is about the country’s capacity to rise again. The height is no accident. Issa deliberately settled on 62 feet as a nod to 1962, the year Jamaica gained Independence, creating a link between the monument and an artistic vision conceived at the birth of the nation but never fully realised.