''Silent Agitator'' is a sculpture by

Ruth Ewan Ruth Ewan is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow, who focuses on projects looking at social movements and protests. Early life Ruth Ewan was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1980. She studied fine art at the Edinburgh College of Art, graduating ...

. It is currently on display on

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. Based on work by

Ralph Chaplin Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887–1961) was an American writer, artist and labor activist. At the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames, Kansas to Chicago in ...

, the art installation features a clock and the text "time to organize" below. The work was inspired by an illustration for the Industrial Workers of the World with the text, "What time is it? Time to organize!" The sculpture was installed along Manhattan's High Line, in the U.S. state of

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, from April 2019 to March 2020. In May 2019, Bloomberg's James Tarmy included ''Silent Agitator'' in his list of "New York City's Most Instagrammable Public Art (That’s Not the Vessel)". Inspired by the sculpture, Ewan, the Brooklyn's Women's Chorus, the New York City Labor Chorus, and other performers sang "odes to organized labor" on the High Line at 14th Street, in October 2019.

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