The sculpture Iacto by James Sandboard was
installed in 2004 just after the completion
of the journalism building.
And it was placed there to be impactful in
that little courtyard area.
And its very dramatic at night, it has a light
it runs itself, it lights up and it casts
letters all over the plaza and these letters
actually are a code, and he did give us an
answer to the code but its kind of locked
away and we aren't allowed to share that and
its quite a little mystery.
The reason that the artist chose this when
we asked him to do the commission was because
he wanted to represent journalists dealing
with words.
We'd considered a lot of different artists
and proposals and this just rose to the very
top as the very best example of what we could
show here.
He's actually a good friend of Dan Brown who
wrote the Davinci Code.
And um evidently although I haven't seen it
their are references to some of his sculptors
the cryptos sculpture in that book or codes
or something of that.
I think they enjoy the gamesmanship of codes.
