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Messrs Culler, Beres, & Sutton create a veritable moveable feast which appears at multiple venues in Seattle. Welcome to Parks & Recreation a-go-go!


Local installation guerillas Zac Culler, Ben Beres, & John Sutton cap the summer with the ultimate Seattle statement on style; a portable park. In a city ringed with a Olmstead designed Park system, the trio have come up with the concept of the mobile micro-park. In their Park, there is a bench, a meandering path, a fountain and a sturdy shade tree.

Parks in Seattle are part of our civic values. Indeed this very story is being filed from Tashkent Park via wireless (WI-FI) network. The park for a Seattle citizen, is a place to read, walk, meet, or throw the Frisbee. By including the basics, these Art Park Rangers pose the question of "what is a park for?" or perhaps "where is a park needed?"

The fountain is derived from the classic English grotto. The stacked stone appears to be artfully haphazard. The lush green grass and the winding path provide a view which when sitting on the park bench allows the sitter a apace or moment for reflection.



The trailer is attached to a van with an artfully altered city seal which in a sense is the signature of the artists. Using a recontextualizing process, they have created new meaning to the old adage "parks for all". Public reaction to the piece has been mostly by the stopping of pedistrians, usually with comments like "did you see that?" and automobile drivers scratching their heads.

John Sutton, Zac Culler, and Ben Beres received a Grant to Artists Program [GAP] grant from the Artist's Trust. As a former GAP Juror, I can only applaud the panel's funding decision. This piece is so right and so Seattle.

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