
Lawrence Argent’s Big Blue Bear (officially titled “I See What You Mean”) is the first piece of art my five-year-old recognized. He saw a miniature of it at a friend’s house when he was about three and a half, and surprised us all when he said, “This looks like the bear downtown.” That my toddler could associate the Blue Bear with the center of Denver speaks to why it's so iconic: The sculpture is thought-provoking, awe-inducing and rooted in place.So rooted in place, in fact, that when Argent, a longtime...