The Fourth Sign The sculpture was surveyed in 1994 as part of the Save Outdoor Sculpture! project, but no record of its condition exists. The Fourth Sign The Fourth Sign is a public artwork by the American artist Tony Smith situated on the lawn outside the Art Building at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The large sculpture is fabricated in steel, painted black, and signifies the fourth Zodiac sign, which is Cancer (a crab). The sculpture was commissioned by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in accordance with the Art in State Buildings Law. Since its
The Snake and the Crab The Snake and the Crab Speaking of The Snake and the Crab in Ancient Greece was the equivalent of the modern idiom, 'Pot calling the kettle black'. A fable attributed to Aesop was eventually created about the two creatures and later still yet another fable concerning a crab and its offspring was developed to make the same point. The first known mention of the snake and the crab is found in a drinking song dating from the late 6th or early 5th century BCE: Since the movement of both creatures is far from direct, this is as much as to