mel chin

See-Saw


1976
existing landscape, steel, hydraulics, rubber
This project was commissioned for the Houston Main Street Festival Monumental Sculpture Exhibition in 1976.

Consisting of two 6 ft by 6 ft “planter boxes” set approximately 60 ft apart, and linked by a hydraulic system. A participant standing on one part of the “incised” ground would slowly sink while watching the other section of the ground silently and simultaneously rise.