Searching for structure at Penn

What's my "thing"?
As soon as I read the assignment for this week's recitation, I knew I was going to have a hard time completing it. It wasn't because of the fact that I couldn't think of a structure to analyze (not that I had that many original ideas, anyway), but rather because I couldn't think of one I would love to analyze. As I was wandering around locust Walk, walking to and from class, making my way to the quad or going to the library, I realized there was one thing that I always noticed when I walked by: the LOVE statue.
At first, I thought it would be too hard to analyze the structure of something so abstract, and that it might be a cliché to use one of the staples of Penn's campus and Philadelphia as my object. I also pondered over the questions that we had to blog about, and I thought that it would be a big challenge to compare the statue to something else and to relate its form to its function. Despite the daunting prospects, I decided to take the plunge and see what would happen if I tried to describe the LOVE statue as a "thing" across three length scales, because - after all - isn't the whole point of this assignment to learn how to connect concrete and abstract things?
I'll be back soon with the final result, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!