Chrysalis: The 2,500-pound Bronze Beast in Wauwatosa

The Chrysalis sculpture, residing in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, weighs a hefty 2,500 pounds. Look out, it's almost ready to hatch, much like an Oriental Hornet preparing for launch. Back in 1990, the Charles and Margaret Lescrenier family commissioned this artwork for the Girl Scouts’ headquarters, which was just a stone's throw away from their new center. Settling at the Marion Chester Read Center, this sculpture stands tall as a tribute to Marion Chester Read - the first president of the local Girl Scouts in 1921. Chrysalis, with its linear texture and bronze tendrils, is a sculpted representation of a caterpillar on the verge of metamorphosis, a fitting memorial to the cycle of life and growth that Ms. Read symbolized. And let's not forget, change, like a caterpillar, is just part of the program, required for fresh new growth.

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