{"id":20101,"date":"2013-08-05T08:13:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20101"},"modified":"2013-08-05T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:59:05","slug":"forest-for-the-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/08\/05\/forest-for-the-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest for the Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the grounds of \u00a0the North Carolina Museum of Art, Penland, N.C. artist Tom Shields created Forest for the Chairs. In a grove of trees Shields transforms discarded chairs &#8220;into anthropomorphic furniture and sculpture.&#8221; The chairs are positioned in a variety of angles among the trees.<\/p>\n<p>In this 2013 work of art, the chairs are grafted to the trees and over time the they will decay and fall apart, completing the natural cycle.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009\" class=\"navis-slideshow two-up\"><div id=\"20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009-slide1\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chairs1.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"credit\">Karen Tam \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/h6><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/08\/05\/forest-for-the-chairs\/#20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009\/1\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jogger runs along the path on the Museum Park grounds. One of the chairs is in the foreground and Thomas Sayre's huge circles work of art are in the background. The smokestack from the former Polk Youth Center is seen in the far background.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009-slide2\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chairs2.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"credit\">Karen Tam \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/h6><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/08\/05\/forest-for-the-chairs\/#20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009\/2\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Tom Shields created Forest for the Chairs on the grounds of the North Carolina Museum of Art<\/p><\/div><div id=\"20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009-slide3\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chairs3.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/08\/05\/forest-for-the-chairs\/#20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009\/3\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><\/div><div id=\"20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009-slide4\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chairs5.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/08\/05\/forest-for-the-chairs\/#20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009\/4\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><\/div><div id=\"20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009-slide5\"><img data-lazy=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chairs6.jpg\" \/><h6 class=\"permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2013\/08\/05\/forest-for-the-chairs\/#20101-fe4a90888ea9807e6ae4504b58b6a009\/5\" class=\"slide-permalink\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i> permalink<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the grounds of  the North Carolina Museum of Art, Penland, N.C. artist Tom Shields created Forest for the Chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24026,"featured_media":20106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}