URODA

This fourteen minute documentary follows the remarkable and labor-intensive creation of Ursula von Rydingsvard "URODA", a site specific sculpture commissioned to highlight the entrance to the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University.

The nineteen-foot-tall work is von Rydingsvard’s first sculpture made primarily of copper. Her full-sized maquette, created using stacked, texturized cedar beams shaped with a circular saw, took six months to build. The finished piece—made of more than 3,000 hand-pounded copper pieces—was fabricated by the metal artist Richard Webber and a team of skilled craftspeople.