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The Colorado-based sculptor hired by the city of Richmond for a riverfront art installation is proposing building and installing a series of 17-foot-tall rings he’s titled “The Path Untraveled.”

Joshua Wiener, to whom the city has awarded a $200,000 commission for the project, designed the work to cut through the southern terminus of the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge, which is under construction and will offer a pedestrian pathway from Brown’s Island to Manchester.

In his proposal, Wiener said he hopes the work will suggest “new perspectives through the landscape,” inspired in part by the bridge it will adorn, which he called a significant accomplishment for access to nature.

“An artwork of new paths, uncharted territory and flow will honor this legacy of pathways,” he writes. “The artwork laces through the transition zone from civilization to nature, riding the edge of nature, dancing between the built and the wild. I was drawn to create a playful connection between nature and our civilized world.”