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Denis
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Happily retired in Atlanta and ready to enjoy all this life has to offer.
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In the field by the skate park. There’s a story describing it.
WAKE Mel Chin 2023 Wake is a large-scale installation modeled on the structural ribs of the nineteenth-century clipper ship U.S.S. Nightingale that rise up from the ground and frame a 21-foot-tall figurative sculpture. The carved sculpture, derived from a figurehead on the prow of the Nightingale, represents the opera singer Jenny Lind. Lind, the first international "superstar" to tour America from 1850-1852,was a spectacle orchestrated by PT.. Barnum and is considered one of the first examples of mass marketing. Subtle animatronic motions allow her to slowly breathe and scan the sky, adding a contemporary upgrade. The Nightingale clipper ship was captured by the Union Army in 1860, ending an attempt to transport enslaved Africans. For its Atlanta presentation, the figurehead casts her gaze toward 501 Auburn Avenue, the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wake forms a quiet space for the public to consider the past and future. This work was originally installed in Times Square in New York in 2018.
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 AM