"I have always wanted to build a model skyscraper using Erector parts. [This] model skyscraper, built from a toy and 65 feet in height, takes on the dimensions of a full-sized building. The circle of actual buildings inspiring a toy in 1909, which is then used to build a model skyscraper the size of an actual building in 2008, is a beautiful metamorphosis.” —Chris Burden
Internationally renowned artist Chris Burden (b.1946, Boston, MA) exhibits a new sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York—What My Dad Gave Me, a dramatic, 65-foot-tall skyscraper made entirely of toy construction parts. Standing more than six stories tall at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens, What My Dad Gave Me pays homage to the historic skyscrapers that populate New York and give the city its iconic architectural presence."