A Somewhat Puzzly Sculpture
La Roja and I have been on vacation the past couple of weeks. Rather than travel, etc. we've been staying around town and playing tourist, catching up on a lot of the stuff that we've been too busy to get around to over the last year or so.
One instance of said stuff is the fancy new Olympic Sculpture Park. It's quite nice - the park is a significant improvement to a piece of Seattle waterfront that previously was just a parking lot at the south end of Myrtle Edwards Park. An unedited camera dump of our visit can be found here.
Anyway, one particular sculpture caught my attention due to the way it encodes its title in the sculpture itself. The piece is Roy McMakin's Love & Loss, which is a set of concrete benches and tables, a tree and a giant, neon, rotating ampersand. Some of the pieces are painted white, spelling out the word Love, while the remainder of the concrete pieces spell out Loss. My photo here doesn't really do it justice. The Stranger has a rambling podcast with the artist about the piece, but the page also has a nice mockup image of the sculpture.
One instance of said stuff is the fancy new Olympic Sculpture Park. It's quite nice - the park is a significant improvement to a piece of Seattle waterfront that previously was just a parking lot at the south end of Myrtle Edwards Park. An unedited camera dump of our visit can be found here.
Anyway, one particular sculpture caught my attention due to the way it encodes its title in the sculpture itself. The piece is Roy McMakin's Love & Loss, which is a set of concrete benches and tables, a tree and a giant, neon, rotating ampersand. Some of the pieces are painted white, spelling out the word Love, while the remainder of the concrete pieces spell out Loss. My photo here doesn't really do it justice. The Stranger has a rambling podcast with the artist about the piece, but the page also has a nice mockup image of the sculpture.
Labels: giant rotating logograms, loss, love
