Closing Bell: Soft Features
We snapped this photo very recently, but it looks like this pop-up piece of public art went up on the Brooklyn Polytech campus in November. It is by Matt Sheridan Smith, titled “Soft Features: (price has no memory).” From the description: “Through the creation of four large inflatable structures representing commodities traded on the international…
We snapped this photo very recently, but it looks like this pop-up piece of public art went up on the Brooklyn Polytech campus in November. It is by Matt Sheridan Smith, titled “Soft Features: (price has no memory).” From the description: “Through the creation of four large inflatable structures representing commodities traded on the international futures market, Matt Sheridan Smith toys with the function of memory in the face of an endlessly fluctuating future.” Make of that what you will. The work will be on display until September of the upcoming year.
I wish it had occured to me to take of photograph of this on Sunday (Boxing Day 2010, as in blizzard) night.
looks great
Uhuh, call me a scrooge, but I give that inflatable sculpture less than a week before some punk comes along and punctures them.
Left to right, they are wheat, coffee, wool, and canola oil.
Canola keeps getting popped but they keep fixing it.