LITTLE CHILL BEACH HOSTS LOVE HATE SCULPTURE BY GERMAN ARTIST MIA FLORENTINE WEISS

Nashville, TN, June 28, 2022– Mia Florentine Weiss’s ambigram sculpture LOVE HATE has made its way to Nashville’s community-made “beach,” Little Chill Beach, at the corners of Lafayette, Fourth and Division.

Created by German artist Mia Florentine Weiss, LOVE HATE is a set of two 1.5-ton steel structures of an ambigram that reads “love” from one side and “hate” from the other side. Each measures more than seven feet tall and 16 feet long.

LOVE HATE has traveled through Europe and is now stimulating social dialogue and promoting peace inits tour around the US.

“It’s a multi-faceted, powerful message that symbolizes how we can turn hate into love through a change of perspective. It celebrates our unity as humans through our diversities, a message which resonates with all of us. LOVE HATE is a giant message on the street that we have a choice to make each day. We can choose to focus on love.” – Mia Florentine Weiss

“We’re so excited to have LOVE HATE at Little Chill Beach,” says Mark Cleveland, co-founder of the beach with his wife Jenny Pruitt, “We envisioned the beach as a place where anyone can relax, relate and release (to borrow the popular GIF). And LOVE HATE offers a meditative visual for relating love and releasing hate that crosses all boundaries, cultures and backgrounds.”

Little Chill Beach will be hosting a ribbon cutting with thought leaders to join the community conversation that the LOVE HATE sculpture has started.

Little Chill Beach sprang to life on the 5,000 square foot concrete triangle at the top of Lafayette in June of last year. “The beach always brings us back to what’s pure and simple,” says Pruitt, “But getting to the beach isn’t always easy, so we brought the beach to Nashville.” The pair returned from vacation in June and worked late nights (after their day jobs) to create the beach, just in time for Nashville’s Fourth of July fireworks.

“Our goal was to keep it as recycled and humble as possible, so we went dumpster diving at construction sites around our house in East Nashville; we collected discarded palettes; we painted and spread sand – and we ended up getting so much community involvement to bring it all together, it felt truly magical,” recalls Pruitt.

The space ran through the summer last year as a spot where locals could get their toes in the sand and grab a bite to eat from Wild Fie’s Hot Chicken and Dogs food truck, which was onsite most of the summer. This year the space is open for rental by individuals, businesses and organizations. Cleveland and Pruitt are excited to see what energy the beach, with LOVE HATE, brings to Nashville this year.

The sculpture will remain at Little Chill Beach until late September, when it will embark on a tour of the USA, visiting each General Consulate of Germany to celebrate positive European - American relations.