New York has paid homage to LL Cool J with a brand new solar-powered statue that has been erected.
The monument has been installed at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens and is the brainchild of Sherwin Banfield. Remarkably, the ‘Going Back to the Meadows’ structure also features a solar-powered gold-coloured boombox that plays the rapper’s music.
Reportedly, his work will play through the speakers from noon to 5pm five days a week until the display ends on November 23rd.
“Using traditional techniques of modelling clay and a multitude of reference photographs, I created my artistic interpretation of LL, a collaboration of facial stages emerging from an anatomical foundation,” Banfield wrote on Instagram.
He continued, “Using my years of lessons in study of ancient Kemetic statues, Greco Roman and Italian Renaissance masters, I strived to model the essence, strength, fortitude, sensitivity and determination of LL into this portrait bust.”
Meanwhile, LL is understandably elated with the statue, and he posted a gallery of the art on his Instagram along with the caption, “Anything is possible”.