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KENNESAW, Ga., Jan 4, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) -- "Spaceship Earth," a sculpture honoring environmentalist David Brower on the campus of a Georgia public college, has fallen over and fragmented.
"Kind of ironic," Mary-Elizabeth Watson, a Kennesaw State University employee, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I had no idea it was made up of so many pieces."
The work by the Finnish sculptor who uses only the name Eino was a blue globe with a statue of Brower on top. Brower, who died in 2000, was the Sierra Club's first executive director and a founder of Earth Island Institute.
The work was originally planned for San Francisco, which then turned it down. The University of California at Berkeley also rejected it, and Kennesaw made a home for it after a university official met Eino and became interested in his work.
Investigators are looking into the possibility of vandalism, although university officials say that water leaks or weak glue could be to blame.
Eino plans to rebuild the sculpture "stronger than ever."
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