Seen on Campus: Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9
Written by: Gaby Sanclimenti '25
April 29th, 2024
Vivian Beer (American, b. 1977)Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9, 2017Stainless steel, steel and automotive finishGift of Joseph P. Logan '77 My first reaction when I spotted this work was surprise: amidst the green, wooded landscape is an unnatural pop of shiny red. My logical, order-based brain immediately noticed this eye-catching mystery and alerted me that something was quite obviously different here. In fact, that ‘difference’ is Vivian Beer’s Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9, and its odd-one-out nature seems to be, in itself, the whole point. A sculptor and furniture designer from Bar Harbor, ME, Vivian Beer (b. 1977)...
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