April 14, 2011 - Dancing Under the Moon

"Dance" a bronze sculpture by Hai Ying Wu has come out of a nearly year and a half hibernation and found itself relocated several yards away from its original home at the entrance to the Lynnwood Recreation Center.  The center underwent a $25 million remodel and expansion that included adding a leisure pool (complete with twisting water slides!), a new retractable roof as well as adding or expanding the weight, fitness and locker rooms and courts.  It reopens in just two weeks.

Mr. Wu has several sculptures in the Seattle area including the "Seattle Fallen Firefighter's Memorial" in Pioneer Square.

April 13, 2011 - Rhododendron Spring Decor

What a difference a few months can make!  

From the January 1, 2011 blog post, "Rhododendron Winter Decor", Mini icicles accessorize a rhododendron. It will be several months before this plant shows off its more colorful accessories.

April 7, 2011 - Love & Loss

Roy McMakin’s 2006 work “Love & Loss” mixed media installation at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Seattle’s waterfront includes benches, steps, a walkway, illuminated rotating element and a live tree. (And in this case a BNSF train provides the soundtrack!)  McMakin writes “You need to put the meaning together by sitting on it, walking through it, and then recomposing what you have seen and experienced in your mind’s eye.  Only then will the theme – the process of love and loss – be revealed for you to sit here and contemplate”.

April 7, 2011 - Reflection Through Cloud Cover

Elliott Bay and a sunset over the Olympic Mountains beyond are reflected in this view through Teresita Fernandez's "Cloud Cover" towards Seattle's Belltown neighborhood skyline.  "Cloud Cover" is a laminated glass walkway on the southern edge of a pedestrian bridge over the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train tracks at Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park on the northern edge of the Seattle waterfront. 

From 1911 to the late thru the 1989s the site was used by UNOCAL as a petroleum transfer and distribution facility.  UNOCAL spent 10 years cleaning the site up.  It was purchased by the Seattle Art Museum and Trust for Public Land.  The Olympic Sculpture Park was opened in 2007, has about 20 installations, has a striking Z-shaped landscaping layout and provides free and easy access to the waterfront.