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July/August 2000ART IN THE LIBRARY: GAIA RISESVisitors to Lister Hill Library are greeted by this striking sculpture rising from the floor of the 1st Floor Lobby. Gaia Rises was created in graceful yet powerful lines by local artist Leah Webb and donated to the library by Dr. Samuel B. Barker, Graduate Dean Emeritus. Carved from a massive block of Tennessee Imperial Black Marble, the sculpture weighs approximately 4,000 pounds and reaches 8.75 feet in height. In classical mythology, Gaia is both the goddess of the earth and the earth itself. More recently, the name of Gaia has been applied to the concept of the earth as a living being, as proposed in the "Gaia Hypothesis" developed by James Lovelock in collaboration with Lynn Margulis.
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