I like the Amana church bench without the back: the simplicity of the plank with the tapered, turned legs I find incredibly beautiful.
Danced to the spiritual "There Is a Balm in Gilead," the solo unfolds on and around a long wooden church bench.
Hearsay, 2013, Dining room table, staircase spindles, exterior doors, newel post, bureau parts, church bench, cabinet doors, end table, cast furniture remnants, vintage 1940's glass lens, resin, wool, window frames, concrete, wire cattle fencing, and black velvet, 89" x 58" x 92".
Hearsay, 2013, Dining room table, staircase spindles, exterior doors, newel post, bureau parts, church bench, cabinet doors, end table, cast furniture remnants, vintage 1940's glass lens, resin, wool, window frames, concrete, wire cattle fencing, and black velvet, 89" x 58" x 92" Like Kurt Schwitters before her, Schenkelberg breathes life into the lost and forgotten.
Soldiering on in blind devotion to tradition or dogma, while merely warming a church bench does not make you a Christian.
So the church benches were designed to be easily taken apart and reassembled.
The room and its enclosed garden out back are fashioned after a Viennese wine tavern, with wood reclaimed from church benches, a church bell rope draped over the bar and a confessional bench in one of the bathrooms.
It is set, bizarrely, in a bombed-out church, with benches and pieces of metal scaffolding that shift to form different scenes.
Municipal court is maybe the closest thing protesters have to a stern church: hard benches, rules that cannot be broken and a rather stiff penalty for skipping attendance.
Inside the church, carved bench-ends dating from 1534 depict such pagan subjects as the Green Man and the legend of the men of Crowcombe fighting a two-headed dragon.
But Italy is the perfect country for a weary traveller: there are beautiful churches and benches everywhere and – more importantly – coffee is never more than a few steps away.
