“Loveful Hands,” by sculptor Jay Colman.
The platform where the sculpture will rest.
Update on “Loveful Hands” Eastern Market Plaza’s Public Art Installation
by Larry Janezich
Posted July 12, 2025
Today, ANC6B Commissioner Jerry Sroufe informed other ANC6B Commissioners and the members of his Parks and Public Spaces Taskforce, that artist Jay Coleman’s bronze sculpture titled “Loveful Hands,” is back on track for installation late summer or early fall on Eastern Market Metro Plaza.
The elegant, circular platform near the entrance to Eastern Market Metro on the plaza was completed in October of 2022 and has been awaiting the installation of the artwork it was created to display.
Sroufe told his colleagues that “DGS has indicated that a check now has been written to the foundry and that the bronze sculpture for which the pedestal has been designed will be installed with an appropriate ceremony by late summer or early fall.”
Artist Jay Coleman’s sculpture “Loveful Hands,” is a 5’ X 7’ bronze which feature hands arranged so that the fingers and thumbs form a heart, which encourages passersby to take selfies while seated. It was selected from a number of proposals in November, 2020, but the completion of the project and the casting was slowed until now by the city’s approval process.
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