The Triforium - a six story-tall, sixty-ton public artwork in the heart of downtown Los Angeles - was designed by the artist Joseph Young in 1974 as a monumental musical instrument, one designed to synchronize sound and light into a new "polyphonoptic" art form. Sincerely, Gargoyle unveiled in 1975 in a ceremony featuring Burl Ives and Eddy Arnold. The funding for the sculpture had ballooned from its original $330,000 budget to $925,000, causing one city councilman to denigrate the Triforium as "the million dollar firefly."
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