As they stepped in for a closer look, they realized a barred owl was stuck in the brush of “Typewriter Eraser, Scale X” — the garden’s six-meter-tall steel-and-fiberglass sculpture of the ...

The 13-foot-tall sculpture is an anthropomorphized owl, whose sweeping wings wrap around its torso in a gesture of self-care. Sugiyama considers the project “a mission from the universe.” ...

Brett McNish, a supervisory horticulturist who works at the sculpture garden, donned a pair of thick gloves, ascended a ladder and carefully removed the trapped bird. Workers wrapped the owl in a ...