Alan Collins, sculptor at Andrews University, looks over his Regeneration sculpture, now completed and gracing the main entrance patio of the Science Complex. The sculpture for the Science Complex was designed by Alan Collins (an art professor) is an upsurging ribbon of reinforced concrete that runs its course and returns to earth as a symbol of the life span. it twists in a way to remind us of the DNA spiral, so central to the growth process; and its two linked loops evoke the splitting and dividing of cells that take place in growth. The subsidiary forms, cantilevering outwards contrast with the vertical thrust of the central life-force form. They represent the four primitive elements - air, earth, fire and water. The creative power of Christ and His centrality is symbolized by the mandorla, the form achieved by overlapping two circles set in the paving of the upper rectangular patio. The piece is appropriately named Regeneration. The chief engineer for the sculpture, Dr. William Davidson, dean of the AU College of Technology, said that the piece required an engineering analysis as complex as that for the St. louis arch.
