Mark Leichliter’s Through the Looking Glass was recently installed in Riverfront Park.

He describes the piece:

“I was trying to create a way for Little Rock to see itself  which lead to the idea of reflections. On one side, it has a reflection as a single piece. It represents the community and how it works as a whole. On the other side, it is broken up into individual pieces and that represents the individuals of the community and how they work together to make it work.”

Taking about five months to complete, it stands eight feet tall and fourteen feet wide.  It sits in the park near the Marriott Hotel.

The curved outline of the piece also mimics the curvature of the Marriott’s footprint in that vicinity.  Once the new Broadway Bridge is completed, it will also compliment the “basket handle” arches which will be features of that bridge.

The sculpture was dedicated to Kay Arnold and her late husband Judge Richard Arnold.