Chair-Scape
The Chair-Scape is a public art sculpture made of stainless steel. It was designed to be composed of a series of prefabricated, modular, chair shaped components that can be assemble together into many different sizes and shaped abstract clusters. The number of chairs and their arrangements can be modified to accommodate site-specific requirements. In this design, 34 chairs (based on standard chair dimensions) were welded together to form the sculpture. The basic dimensions of the original chair can change in order to affect the final outcome of the public sculpture. Of course the visitors to the site of the sculpture can sit in any of the chairs.
The iconic chair shape was chosen for the basic modular component because of its specific known functional orientation, which is played with here since it has been assembled often in ways that make its known function impossible. In this way, the entire sculpture (no matter what size) forms a kind of surreal, interactive, public art experience.
The Chair-Scape public art sculpture also explores the potential opportunities inherent in the creation of modular, prefabricated, components that can be used to make many different kinds of public art sculptures for many different kinds of places.
Status: Unbuilt
