The six-foot-tall statue, a wax replica by Richmond artist Sandy Williams IV, was meant to draw attention to the Civil War era and its aftermath.
By Joe Heim, The Washington PostA wax statue of Abraham Lincoln melts during a heat wave in Washington on Monday.
Slumping Abe in heat-induced agony was one interpretation of the meme-makers. Slumping Abe in carnal ecstasy was the suggestion of those hawking more scandalous versions.“I never even thought about it melting, but in hindsight it makes so much sense,” sighed Melissa Krull, 41, who lives nearby and stopped on Monday to take a look at the wax president’s remains. “Even his poor legs are starting to come unglued.
Flame 1, Wax Lincoln 0. Abe was reduced to a ghastly corpse and what was left of the gloppy statue was carted away. “The idea was that the ambient temperature, unless it got to 140 degrees, wouldn’t melt the sculpture,” Williams said. “But yeah, I’m not sure that the company ever tried just putting a block of it outside for days in a hundred plus degree weather.”
“I’m interested in kind of highlighting Reconstruction era histories that maybe have been forgotten or, you know, misplaced within the larger narrative arc,” Williams said. “Like, we learned Lincoln freed the slaves, but not necessarily what happened to these new free Black communities.”
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