Back in November '07, I discussed the obscure "River Legend" sculpture hidden behind downtown Portland's Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. The building's now about to undergo a very ambitious and expensive renovation, with the west side of the building supposedly becoming a giant hanging garden, and the building as a whole being retrofitted with all sorts of trendy sustainable goodness. So as part of this, River Legend has to go into storage. This seems to involve first wrapping it tightly in some sort of plastic wrap, followed by encasing it in some sort of hard foam substance.
I haven't yet seen what the future plans for it are, if that's even been determined yet. Maybe they'll just put it back in its current location, returning it to its current state of obscurity. I've seen old photos of the building that indicated the sculpture was originally in front of the building and was later moved to the back, so I suppose they could do that too. None of the architectural drawings I've seen include anything that resembles a groovy 70's stone arch, though.
Option 3, I suppose, is that it disappears into the private collection of some oily rich well-connected insider. There it will hang on a wall, forever entombed in foam, Han Solo style.
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