With Sculptures All Over Atlanta, Artist Aims To Reflect ‘Diversity Of Communities’

Ayokunle Odeleye poses in his wood working studio.

In his home workshop in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Ayokunle Odeleye’s larger-than-life pieces of public art often start as a small wooden mock-up, that he shapes with a lathe.

The finished product can wind up soaring into the air.

Like the bronze monument called Spirit, Family, Community in Peoplestown that went up before the 1996 Olympics.