A science and art project utilizing an 8' parabolic disc made of aluminum and stainless steel. Park visitors are encouraged to sit on the "x" shaped bench in front of the disc. Wind driven obsidian chimes suspended inside a US Navy fog horn broadcast from the top of a 20' radio tower in a small wetland bog a hundred yards away. If viewers listen carefully or have a conversation sitting on the bench the parabolic disc captures and re-sculpts the sound.



Linda Stern
Art Reinterprets Barriers: Hammocks For the Homeless
Installation

Frequenting Atlanta's public parks and walkways one notices those that linger, often pausing to rest, think, sit, or sleep. The intention of this installation is to give the community an experience with installation art and bring attention to the diverse community needs which exist in the city of Atlanta. The hammock installation gives the community the opportunity to contemplate and experience art as well as interact with it. Through interaction with the installation, art can be viewed as transitory to meet specific needs, creating new experiences for the viewer and participant, or bring to question how public parks meet the needs of the people they serve.

Composed of seven hammocks, the installation is designed to accommodate peoples of all ages. Identified with lifestyles of escape, relaxation, play, and camping, the hammocks incorporate visual elements of industrial, corporate, and residential expansion. The hammocks may contribute to a new experiential relationship to space and give the park a new sense of place for the participant. Questions may be posted at the hammock station to stir enlightenment. If we consider that no place is a place until things have happened in it, are remembered, and recorded, we may realize the importance of contemporary art, intervention, and public art.


Walt Stevens
Gravity Icons
Sculpture

Two wood sculptures from a series titled Gravity Icons that incorporate a tripod base with a long curved arm balanced on top blend harmoniously with the landscape. These works are the artist's meditations as he explores the current stage of his life.
"Often times in my life I have spoken sculpturally about my progress in finding a satisfactory understanding of spirituality."







Shan Sutherland
Journey
Sculpture

Whether you interpret the piece as a boat, vessel or a bridge, universal forms associated with travel and freedom, the piece is completed when children and adults traverse the two curving balance beams. This journey will begin and end with a feeling of relative safety, inches from the ground, allowing two people to hold hands and aid each other in the journey. As the beams curve apart and rise slightly off the ground they will be forced to find their own balance and make the journey alone. In use the piece becomes a metaphor for freedom through self-realization and self-determination.