Finnegan Shannon

*A Bench for My Favorite Book

A Bench for My Favorite Book

Close up of the end of this bench with a red canvas pocket for holding the audiobook transcript. A wire hangs on the floor connecting to headphones out of view.
A light blue bench with text across it that says “A bench for my favorite book” in my handwriting. Brown corduroy seat cushion.

  • About: An installation I made that considers ways a bench can become a frame for/an arrow pointing to something else. I often extend my experience of certain places or things because there is a resting spot, and this piece experiments with channeling that extended time towards something I love deeply: my favorite book: A Selection of Snapshots Taken by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. 

    Commissioned by Wheaton College, Norton, MA as part of the WIIH programming Whose Normal?

  • Year: 2024

  • Size: dimensions variable

  • Materials:  Painted bench, corduroy cushion, Audio transcript, photo copy of 20 pages of A Selection of Snapshots Taken by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  • Fabrication: Wheaton student’s in-house carpentry team 

  • Curator: Elizabeth Hoy 

  • Photos courtesy of Wheaton College