The Skowhegan Regional Chamber of Commerce, which owns the 62-foot-tall sculpture of a Native American fisherman, has offered the sculpture to the town of Skowhegan before it seeks other potential owners.
Eyal was life itself. We are left here shifting around in a depleted realm (I owe this word to Cora Cohen, who upon hearing Eyal had died, said “the world is depleted”), we flattened, having lost dimensions, dimensions of dynamism, as Eyal drew us out of our flatness, drew us out into fuller being.
Crime scene tape surrounds the Skowhegan Indian, a local landmark in Maine, after an assault by Mother Nature. The towering wooden sculpture is missing part of its face and arm,