Goal Posts

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Designed to commemorate the former Orange Bowl, the work re-imagines the
two field goal posts that stood at either end of the stadium. While the
Orange Bowl boasts a prominent position in the cultural history of
Miami, it ultimately was best remembered as a home for football – the
Miami Dolphins, the University of Miami Hurricanes, five Super Bowls,
and eight decades of Orange Bowl games. Suspended above the end zones,
the goal posts bookended the field itself while standing watch over all
of these events. The bright yellow uprights are immediately recognizable
to everyone, even when extracted from their former context and placed
on the site of the new Marlins ballpark.

In the absence of the playing field, the two goalposts are brought
together to create a gate that viewers pass through on their way to the
new stadium. The formerly vertical uprights bend around one another in
an embrace that is simultaneously solemn and celebratory, remembering
both the loss of the Orange Bowl and the joyous victories that fans
experienced there. The destruction of the stadium has been reinterpreted
into a creative act.

For those familiar with the Orange Bowl and its history, the marker
stirs an existing memory, bringing the visitor back to that place in
time. For those visiting the site for the first time, the marker is
designed to trigger questioning of why football field goal posts are
located outside of a baseball stadium. In this question is the beginning
of a conversation between young and old, locals and visitors,
Hurricanes fans and non-fans, and current and future generations as the
collective memory of the Orange Bowl is passed on.