24 STONES I’D LIKE TO KNOW
Offered visitors a slightly softer rock upon which to sit while viewing DUMBO’s magnificent waterfront, Twenty-Four Stones I’d Like to Know presented nine giant upholstered boulders in Brooklyn Bridge Park. As part of the 2011DUMBO Arts Festival, this project was the brainchild of artist Elizabeth Demaray and Pillow Culture. Each stone sported it’s own uniquely fitted cozy-style covering in plush striped fabric and EZ Dri® outdoor reticulated foam. Twenty-Four Stones asked the age old question: can you ever make a stone any softer?
Through this unlikely marriage of materials, Twenty-Four Stones also considered the relationship between monumentality and comfort via a familiar object – the pillow. In this project, Pillow Culture began to use each rock pattern as a template, re-constructing the underlying boulders in order to generate a geometrized version of each stone. Acting as prototypes, each stone will be re-created as part of a limited edition in their Mega Pillow series.
Image by Paul Goode
