| Love & Loss | |
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 Part of the installation in 2024 | |
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| Artist | Roy McMakin |
| Year | 2005 |
| Location | Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle Art Museum), Seattle, Washington |
| 47°36′59.73″N122°21′34.21″W / 47.6165917°N 122.3595028°W | |
Love & Loss is an outdoor 2005 mixed-media installation by Roy McMakin, installed at Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington. [1] [2]
The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said the work is multifaceted and interactive, respectively. [3] [4] According to The Stranger , "The piece consists of cast concrete benches, a sidewalk-like pathway, a small, circular reflecting pool, and a double-trunked crabapple tree that spell out the words 'love' and 'loss.' Jutting up from the middle is a red neon ampersand." [5] The ampersand revolves. [6]
Brangien Davis of Crosscut.com described the artwork as a "sculpture slash word puzzle". [7]
Arts Observer called the work "clever". [8]
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