About Google Sculpture

With a mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s stock has more than quadrupled. This is represented in the sculpture by the blue acrylic graph. Since making this graph Google’s stock has risen to over $532. This sculpture was created to celebrate the growth of the company as I believe in their goal and their investments. For instance, Google has the largest solar power system on a US corporate campus which supplies 30% of their energy and has announced plans to be carbon neutral by the end of 2007. This is represented in the green energy symbol of a windmill that forms a L. Also, Google Earth partnered with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to reveal environmental hotspots. The interactive map depicts and describes humanity’s impact on the environment and reveals physical trends over the last 30 years. I celebrate this collaborative effort with a three-dimensional globe painted as the United Nations symbol. The flags on the globe represent all of Google’s offices, well over 150, which will soon include Charleston, SC. Another innovative production method is Google’s “Twenty Percent Time” where all Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day a week) on projects that interest them. Approximately half of new product launches originate from “20% time”.

Their success has reduced the internet to human scale. This is directly related to their ideals presenting a new highly inventive form of human and tech interaction. The greatest benefit for all partners, human or otherwise (as noted by plants) is emphasized in the sculpture, representing a global system which google (more than most communications companies) truly embodies.