EXPRESSION.SERVICE.ESSENCE. is a permanent design installation made of 12 benches created by Dr. Samuel Ross and placed around the Miami Design District.
The concept is a study of the importance of public space.
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The nature of service is to determine and solicit the needs of the populace.
The viewer transitions from the actor to the protagonist when both disciplines coalesce.
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Intimate engagements with functional sculpture often take place as familiar gestures. Sitting, standing, leaning. Each contact with the material is a composite of the senses; be it temperature, color, or surface.
An affirmation of our connection to material, to location, to the inanimate and the intangible qualities of the self.
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The benches were made exclusively for MDD.
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