On my recent trip to New York I had the opportunity to meet lady liberty (The statue of liberty), I took this shot with my smartphone moto g4, I took various photographs but this one really caught more my eye, capturing this side of the statue, makes me see it from a different perspective from what we all see it primarily.
The statue was inaugurated in 1886, representing freedom and emancipation regard to oppression.
The statue is the work of the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the internal structure was designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel.
The base is made in concrete and is covered in marbrier Euville, a stone from the quarries of a village in France, Euville, in the department of Meuse, famous for its whiteness and its qualities of resistance to erosion and seawater.
Stone of Kersanton (France), or kersanthite, was also used, which is a subvolcanic magmatic rock, with a composition close to the granite, and it is easy to be sculpted and resistant to weather.
The construction of the statue structure proposed the challenge of making it strong enough to withstand the onslaught of weather, but at the same time light enough to be able to be embarked.
The solution was to make the statue hollow: a cover on an interior framework, the same technique used to build the Colossus of Rhodes. But while it had a cast bronze coating, Bartholdi decided to use thin sheets of copper, lightweight metal, somewhat flexible and resistant to corrosion. The embossing method was used to work with it, which consists in shaping the metal by hammering it on sculpted wood molds.
An iron skeleton formed by 1350 ribs emerges from a central column formed by four concrete bars extended from the base of the statue to the nape of the same. The armor was made of iron bars that twisted like springs following the shape of the statue. To minimize the potentially corrosive contact between copper and iron, the sheets of the coating hung on this skeleton by copper supports protected with asbestos. The pieces of the coating were joined by copper rivets.
Hope you like the photo, have a nice day :)