Next week, Seattle will be host to “The ‘Can’t Miss’ Conference for Sculpture Parks and Gardens Administrators and Enthusiasts!”

But back before the Olympic Sculpture Park opened, In/Visible hosted artists Susie Lee (whose first solo show at Lawrimore Project opens tonight) and Tivon Rice and writer/curator Suzanne Beal (whose show Help Me, I’m Hurt also opens tonight at Kirkland Arts Center).

All three of them had taken a class at UW about the park that included trekking out to the homes of the collectors who owned many of the OSP sculptures. In this great conversation, they described what it was like when the sculptures lived privately, not publicly. This, for example, lived like this

instead of like this

To me, that sculpture by Mark Di Suvero, Bunyon’s Chess (1965), is the one that suffers most on the relentless, distancing slopes of the OSP.

In this week’s new In/Visible, Seattle sculptor Drew Daly talks about his optically teasing furniture, which is domestic by nature. Every one of the “Siamese chairs” in his current show at Greg Kucera Gallery was determined by a process that involved cutting up and manipulating photographs. To initiate a series of mental events for the viewer including both memory and improvisation, Daly started with an IKEA chair, an object with “absolutely no shock value.”