Dancing Mattresses (video courtesy the artist and Kare 11 news and installation view)
Dancing mattresses was a combination of stillness and movement with a little slapstick comedy by stacking and shaking discarded bedspring mattresses. The work brought the bedroom into a sculpture park using a material that is universal, could move and be still, be noisy and quiet, and change when you are close to it. So old mattress springs rigged with a motor and activated by a motion sensor were the recipe. I also like the idea of poking fun at a fairy tale that many people could recognize with the materials I chose, The Princess and the Pea. And most important, with the help of Franconia Sculpture Park staff, especially John Hock and Jeremy Carlson, making a really tall sculpture that could shake, rattle and roll.
Motor, motion sensor, wire cable, steel, spring mattresses
17’ x 6’6” x 4’10”
1998 - 2003
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota
The sculpture was featured in several television news shows in Minnesota and is featured on the Sculpture.magazine website (http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p&g/francon/franc1.shtml) Images of the sculpture were included as a backdrop for an advertisement aired during a Super Bowl by Monster.com. |
