Client: Bellevue Art Museum
Location: Bow, WA, United States
Completion date: 2007
Artwork budget: $40,000
Project Team
Artist
Ries Niemi
Client
Michael Monroe
Bellevue Art Museum director emeritus
Overview
A structure, a metaphor, a sculpture, a comment on the neverending escalation of sizes of lady's handbags. Big enough to be a walk-in closet, at 5' wide and 10' long.
Goals
Originally designed for the plaza in front of the Bellevue Art Museum, in the midst of a large shopping district. Displayed there for 1 1/2 years, then later in the courtyard of the Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum. It raises issues of consumerism, materialism, storage, and modern life.
Process
Michael Monroe approached me with the idea of displaying an existing work, but we instead came up with this- part drive thru tree, part consumer fetish object, part sculpture, for the Bellevue Art Museum.
Additional Information
Forged, fabricated, and machined stainless steel.