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Shade Tree Comfort

Thornton Dial
  • TD - Shade Tree Comfort - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
  • TD Shade Tree Comfort

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    Photo: Matt Arnett
2005
Found metal, metal rods, metal screen, corrugated metal, barbed wire, found wood, and tree branches
64 x 133 x 58 inches
Collection of
Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Dial's Shade Tree Comfort, a bench made of rusty metal, barbed wire, and splintered wood, offers a humorous rebuttal to sentimentalizing visions of idyllic rural life.