April 7, 2011 - Love & Loss

Roy McMakin’s 2006 work “Love & Loss” mixed media installation at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Seattle’s waterfront includes benches, steps, a walkway, illuminated rotating element and a live tree. (And in this case a BNSF train provides the soundtrack!)  McMakin writes “You need to put the meaning together by sitting on it, walking through it, and then recomposing what you have seen and experienced in your mind’s eye.  Only then will the theme – the process of love and loss – be revealed for you to sit here and contemplate”.