Concept image for Mt. Marcy Couch used for proposals and presentations.
If your going to make some concept images why not have a fun one. I really wanted to put President Obama moving the couch, but ran out of time.
Conceptual fly over of the mountain range, now you can do a real fly by!
The many manufactured sedimentary layers of Mt. Marcy Couch. Geological time is now.
Diagram for the base of the mountain couch.
Sub structure of the couch to save on materials and make it save for the public.
Installation image, which went exactly as planned. Yea for engineering!
You've gotta love water jet cutting when you can afford it. Can somebody be my benefactor?
Making the mega mold to cast the foam in. The pieces were generated and labeled from a grasshopper program I wrote that also automatically made brackets to fit it all the pieces together. So many hours of laser cutting...
A 4ft tall, 4ft wide and 8ft long mega mold to cast the soft foam in.
The finished cast foam form over the substructure just waiting to be sealed for outdoor use.
The finished piece installed on Governors Island.
Folks pondering about the landscape.
The money shot
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Mt. Marcy Couch

Mt. Marcy Couch aims to have viewers think about their relationship to their environment. People today are living within a digital world, more than ever diminishing the interaction they have with the natural environment. By bringing Mt. Marcy, the tallest mountain in New York State, to Governors Island, an exaggerated juxtaposition of environments is created. The form of the sculpture references the digital environment, our growing relationship to the living room and the loss of the natural landscape. Viewers can interact with Mt. Marcy Couch by sitting, laying and climbing on it as they enjoy a slice of the Adirondacks in the city. Hopefully, by interacting with the sculpture, people begin to question their relationship between our digital, interior and exterior environments as they are merged into a single piece of furniture.

Kevin Knigge Dartt
Sculpture , Engineering and Design Rochester, NY