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The piece is designed for the edge of a promenade in the park:
the piece looks out, it throws something out into the river, while
at the same time it comes back inland, it brings something back
home.
On the ground, at the edge of the pavement and parallel to that
edge, is a concrete car without wheels, like a car put out to
pasture: the hood and the trunk are open, shrubbery grows wild
out of the hood and the trunk, the car becomes overgrown and turns
into a jungle. Rising out of this car, at a 45† angle, directed
out over the river, a second concrete car emerges like a rearing
horse: the hood of this car is open, too, water pours out of the
hood and off into the river, the car becomes a fountain. Out of
the other side, the shore side, of the grounded car, a concrete
sailboat emerges at a 90† angle, parallel to the ground: fog oozes
out of its aluminum mast and boom, the boat comes onto shore like
a ghost ship.
The concrete unit of vehicles functions like ordinary park furniture:
it's something like a statue, a monument -- it's something like
a fountain -- it's something like seating (you can sit back on
the edge of the hood and the trunk, the way you might sit on any
car in the street, though in this case you're sitting in the middle
of shrubbery -- you can always climb up, then, and sit in the
sailboat, you disappear into the fog). |