“My work evokes the particular state of attention produced by being alone in public: the sudden sense of everything as fascinating, the strange anxiety between feeling invisible and suddenly becoming aware that you are seen.” – Chloë Bass After your next visit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, take a walk around Volunteer Park to see new artworks by artist Chloë Bass. Commissioned and organized by @henryartgallery, a series of 14 stone benches are placed throughout the park with each engraved with its own inscription and a silhouetted image. Titled "Soft Services," the project examines themes of cultivation and wildness, the laws we impose to control human bodies, hierarchy and proximity, and stones as memorials, boundaries, and legislative markers. Stop by the park this Saturday, October 1 at 3 pm to hear a conversation between Bass and author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about the body and colonialism, intimacy and loss, cruising and alienation, communal possibility, and intimate transgression. Tickets are free—get yours now at @henryartgallery’s #LinkinBio! _ #HenryArtGallery #VolunteerPark #SeattleAsianArtMuseum #ChloeBass #AttheHenry #SoftServices #MattildaBernsteinSycamore [📸 Chloe Bass, Installation view of Henry OffSite—Chloe Bass: Soft Services, 2022, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Photo: Jueqian Fang.]