Giant Coffee Bean on Grafton Street

Despite passing this art installation on Grafton Street countless times, I never really saw it in it’s form – the giant coffee bean.

The work, entitled ‘Patefaction’, is approximately 24ft high and is made of four silver fibre glass units suspended on a galvanised steel frame. Each individual panel will gently swing in the wind. ‘Patefaction’ will be installed on Grafton Street for a period of 12 months.

The dictionary definition of Patefaction is : The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. Apparantly it is also a surgical treatment for impacted teeth. Thankfully, the swinging panels are above head height so there is no danger of anyone getting knocked in the mouth and requiring surgery.

So there yis are now. Learn something new every day.

Image by KarlosShocko on Twitter.

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