Back when I was teaching Payments Boot Camps I used to tell stories about the dramatic impact that Dee Hock had on the evolution of the payment card industry globally. One of my favorites was to show a photo of this black granite sculpture and to relate this story of Dee’s about “the banker’s heart”!
Here’s a photo of the sculpture that I made on one of my many visits to that building over the years:
Atlas Obscura notes:
The sculpture’s official name is “Transcendence,” and it was sculpted by Masayuki Nagare from 200 tons of black Swedish granite. It was commissioned in 1969 for the A.P. Giannini Plaza of 555 California Street, the building that was originally the headquarters for Bank of America…
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