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Who wants to stay in a play fort shaped like a mushroom cloud?

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Sculptor Dietrich Wegner specializes in playhouses in the form of nuclear blasts. Some of them are more inviting to guests than others — for example, I wouldn’t recommend scurrying up this 20-foot-tall sculpture Playhouse anytime soon.

Here’s Wenger’s mission statement:

The ephemeral beauty of a mushroom cloud is frightening, how it floats for a minute, delicate and blooming, yet remains chaotic and utterly destructive. We experience a contradiction between what our eyes enjoy and what our mind knows. It is this conflicted experience Dietrich Wegner’s work strives to evoke in a viewer in order that we will have a sparked curiosity and unstable assumptions.

[Via Laughing Squid. Left photo via Westmoreland Gallery.]

Playhouse II

Poly-Fil, Steel, Rope, Wood

8′ x 8′ x 8′

Playhouse II

Poly-Fil, Steel, Rope, Wood

8′ x 8′ x 8′

Mushroom House I

laminated wood

6′ x 6′ x 8′

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