No Fuss

*No Fuss*, the monumental steel sculpture by Chinese-born, New York–based Mark di Suvero, was completed in 2008 and has been on loan from the artist since 2016. The sculpture, like many of Di Suvero’s works, has movable parts that swing and rotate. Usually weighing several tons, his sculptures appear to defy gravity with a tremendous sense of dynamism, energy, and movement. *No Fuss* is no exception. Suvero once noted, quote: “I’m always conscious of balance and gravity’s center point. Like a dancer or an acrobat — I’m feeling for that invisible point. For me, gravity is about space, the way water is to a surfer. Gravity isn’t an adversary or an obstacle but an enabling force.” *No Fuss* stands watch over the meadow, where it lives within the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. It swings and sways, as if to beckon Park-goers closer to its imposing frame. Meanwhile, another of Di Suvero’s gigantic sculptures, this one titled *Ulalu*, resides at the street-front lawn, just off the Blue Ridge Corridor, where it invites passersby to enter and discover what other engaging and inspiring sculptures await.