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A 7.3-metre-high oversized park bench on The Morgans sculpture trail above Transmission Gully.
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Giant Park Bench – Pāuatahanui
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Approximate location · 41.080° S, 174.940° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
A park bench seven and a third metres high, built so that you walk underneath it rather than sit on it.
That inversion is the entire work. A bench is the most human-scaled object in any public space – its dimensions are determined precisely by the length of a thigh and the height of a knee – so enlarging one until an adult can stand beneath the seat does something no giant animal can. It makes the viewer the wrong size rather than the object.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
The Giant Park Bench is a 7.3-metre-high oversized bench on The Morgans sculpture trail above Transmission Gully, dramatically scaled to be large enough to walk beneath.
ACCESS
Private property accessed through booked visits to The Morgans sculpture trail. Do not create an unsanctioned roadside stopping point on Transmission Gully.
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