Tree Bench

Description: The sculpture is located where two paths meet in Pratt Park. Visitors will come across what seems to be a fallen, cross section of a metal tree. The sculpture serves as a non-traditional bench.

While the artwork is titled Tree Bench, it is not a tree, or even made from wood. The artist welded hundreds of small, flat steel bars to form the “bark” of the tree, colored mortar and concrete provide infill. By using many pieces of steel to make the artwork bench, the artist shows that several different pieces can come together to make something beautiful, useful and greater than the sum of its parts, whether a place to sit, or branches of human culture.

Artist statement: Trees symbolize the living, growing and diverse branches of human culture that come together to form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Watch: Seattle Channel Profile of Artist Paul Sorey (2007)
 
Location: Pratt Park, 1800 South Main Street, Seattle WA 98144