Mission
THE STELAE INC. PLANS TO ERECT AND MAINTAIN A LARGE PUBLIC MONUMENT IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. PRINCIPALLY, THE MONUMENT CONSISTS OF 3376 ENGRAVED GRANITE SLABS (THE STELAE), TO BE ERECTED IN A LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL ON THE DESIGNATED SITE. THE SITE WILL ALSO FEATURE SIXTEEN AEOLIAN HARPS. TAKEN TOGETHER, THE MONUMENT WILL PROVIDE A SPACE IN WHICH THE PUBLIC MAY EXPERIENCE BOTH A SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION AND THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF LITERARY TEXTS. THE STELAE WILL BE ENGRAVED WITH WORKS OF POETRY, PROSE, AND GRAPHIC ARTS - (ELEVEN NOVELS, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND MORE THAN A HUNDRED POEMS) - BASED ON A PERSONALIZED, FREE TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW TANAKH (THE CHRISTIAN OLD TESTAMENT) - AND CONSTITUTING ONE LITERARY EPIC THAT INVOLVES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON, THE LIFE OF A SMALL SOUTHERN COMMUNITY, AND A JOURNAL WRITTEN BY THE SON AS HE AND HIS FATHER DRIVE AROUND THE FIVE CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD. FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE STELAE'S STORY, MANY OF THE GRANITE SLABS WILL CONTAIN TH