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A Philly artist created a giant sculpture of his father’s head that disappears with the tides. Imagine his father’s surprise.

Watching the floating head slowly covered up by water and then revealed has led to some pretty interesting talks between Philly artist Miguel Horn and his father, an Ardmore jeweler.

The sculpture Abu by artist Miguel Horn is crafted from translucent acrylic sheets and honors his father, an immigrant from Venezuela. It is one of the artworks in Flow, an exhibition of floating sculptural installations sited in the boat basin adjacent to the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn’s Landing on the Delaware River approaching low tide in the evening October 29, 2019.
The sculpture Abu by artist Miguel Horn is crafted from translucent acrylic sheets and honors his father, an immigrant from Venezuela. It is one of the artworks in Flow, an exhibition of floating sculptural installations sited in the boat basin adjacent to the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn’s Landing on the Delaware River approaching low tide in the evening October 29, 2019.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer