Lingua (sculpture)
The Lingua is a sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Sculpture. "Lingua" is composed of two 16' tall cylinders, with text cut with a water jet cutter in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Ethiopian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, and Iroquois. The texts are historical texts from as far back as 1400 BC. The Russian-language section is a quote from Leo Tolstoys 1869 novel "War and Peace" (Volume 3, Part 1, beginning of chapter XXII). The Chinese-language section is a piece of Chinese calligraphy work "Lantingji Xu" written by Wang Xizhi