"The Awakening" used to be located at Hains Point, in Washington D.C., but was sold in 2007 and moved in 2008 to National Harbor in Prince George's County in MD.
it's a statue of a sleeping giant that has awakened and is rising up out of the earth.
Are you surprised they sold it and moved it out of D.C. -- when George W. Bush was president? I'm not.
I understand attributing a hopeful message to this piece. But. My first observation led me to recall the interment of the Watchers by God and Enoch's defense which saved the fallens' souls. When the art was re-viewed today, Revelations and the unchaining of Satan came to mind.