Kinetic sculpture on display

Buenaventura Art Association artist Christine Beirne created and donated a kinetic sculpture for the Ventura Harbor Village titled "Seeking Peace." The piece is mounted between two palm trees in the planter between the Harbor Village Gallery and Hi-Cees restaurant.

The sculpture is a sitespecific piece consisting of origami-inspired steel cranes that rotate in the wind. Beirne was inspired by the story "Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes," about a girl who contracted leukemia from Hiroshima and believed that folding 1,000 paper cranes would grant her a wish. The origami cranes symbolize peace.

Beirne is the executive director of the Buenaventura Art Association. She studied sculpture with Ellis Jump at Ventura College and Matt Furmanski at California State University Channel Islands. She studied welding with Michael Clarke at Ventura College.

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