iD magazine

DAVID’S SORE FEET

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The statue’s center of gravity does not align with that of its base, so if the base is level, the statue’s body is off-balance. For much of its time the base had been positioned on uneven, shifting ground. This put enormous pressure on the body’s narrowest part, the ankles, causing the hairline fractures that now threaten the statue’s continued existence.

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