SEAT, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 2 September 2012

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SEAT #1, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 2 September 2012

This is an incredible piece of sculpture I discovered one afternoon while walking through Freedom Park in Atlanta, GA, in September, 2012.

SEAT #2, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 2 September 2012

It’s created using numerous chairs linked together. The inscription at the base identified it as SEAT.

SEAT #3, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 2 September 2012

The inscription read:

SEAT
by Yong Ju Lee and Brian W. Brush

Chairs are remarkable pieces of furniture. When you think about the loads they are required to carry in order to support people of all sizes and dimensions, you realize just how strong they actually are. We do not think of chairs as structural components; we just think of them as chairs. Their domestic identity overwhelms almost any other interpretation of their use. SEAT turns that identity inside out, transforming 400 Ikea Ivar chairs into a whimsical composition of structural sculpture.

SEAT #4, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 2 September 2012

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Presented by Flux Projects.
Sponsored by Sunbelt Rentals.
Additional support provided by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs and Turner Voices. Special thanks to the Freedom Park Conservancy, the City of Atlanta Office of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs, Concrete Ideas LLC, and the Montana State University School of Architecture.

SEAT #5, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 2 September 2012

Published by G. M. Lupo

​G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020). He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.

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