These metal benches line the boardwalk behind the San Diego Convention Center. They face San Diego Bay. They were commissioned in 2008 and created by noted artist Nance O’Banion.
As her website explains: Nance produced 13 original designs, each of which was fabricated, once in its original form and once as a ‘mirror image’, in plasma-cut powder-coated steel. The installation of 26 art benches was titled Reverie.
I took these photos yesterday…
Today, a plaque can be seen embedded in the boardwalk near the benches, very close to the entrance to the Fifth Avenue Landing Superyacht Marina. It resembles the Reverie plaque shown in the gallery on Nance O’Banion’s website. The plaque includes her name and the same 2008 year.
But the title of the current plaque is different!
Why is the title Caesure, and not the original Reverie?
At some point, was the name of the installation changed to Caesure? The Latin word caesūra means “a cutting” or “a separation,” which might apply to the mirrored bench designs, or possibly how these benches were made.
Or . . . does Caesure concern another work of public art somewhere nearby? If so, what and where?
It’s a mystery with no solution that I can find!
If you know more about the history of this art bench installation, and why there have been different plaques with two different titles, please leave a comment!
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