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Belly Yup

Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup
Belly Yup

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Location: Charlotte, N.C., U.S.A.
Completion: 2022
Artist: Matthew Geller 
Commissioned by: The City of Charlotte, North Carolina, the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Public Art Commission, and the Arts & Science Council
Design manager: Public Art Services
Glass fabricator: Glasmalerei Peters Studios 
Steel fabricator: Elmendorf/Geurts
Engineering: Yetiweurks
Materials: Ten Vanceva® Color PVB interlayers
Photo credit: ©Mitchell Kearney

A colorful meeting place
Located at the trailhead for the 7th­–10th Street segment of the Cross Charlotte Trail in Charlotte, N.C., Matthew Geller’s public artwork Belly Yup is an interactive gathering space bathed in ambient light. The structure features 20 lenses made with laminated layers of glass and ten different Vanceva® Color PVB interlayers. 
 
Each lens comprises seven ½-inch round pieces of glass in diminishing diameters—from 279 mm to 77 mm. The glass is attached to a ¾-inch Corten steel canopy with Dow Corning 995 silicone.  
 
The artwork becomes animated by people swaying on the suspended bench and the changing ambient light. It’s also seemingly frozen in a state of collapse—with bowed columns, a tilted canopy and unaligned layers of glass. 
 
With people swaying on the bench and changes in ambient light and weather, Belly Yup is in a state of constant flux, becoming an iconic place at the trailhead to gather, interact and rest.

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