Client: City of Nashville

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

Completion date: 2013

Artwork budget: $190,000

Project Team

Artist

Aaron T Stephan

ATS

Client

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City of Nashville

Overview

Composition is inspired by the small plastic parts trees often found in model car kits. This one contains a full sized orchestra with over 100 instruments. This suspended project measures 2x20x60 ft. and is fabricated from painted aluminum and poly-resin.

Goals

Nashville’s history reveals that it is not necessarily local musical talent that made the city a music center. It simply had the venues, the tools, and the smarts to draw talent to Nashville and allow creativity to grow. I came to think of the parts tree as a metaphor for Nashville’s place as a blank slate for musicians to realize their potential.