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Public Arts Program
1997-1998 Projects
Meadowbrook Pond Reflective Refuge
35th Avenue NE and NE 110th Street, Meadowbrook
Artists Lydia Aldredge, Kate Wade and Peggy Gaynor
1998
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Reflective Refuge at Meadowbrook Detention Pond in north Seattle exemplifies how the involvement of artists can enhance visitors’ and employees’ experience of a Seattle Public Utilities facility. Meadowbrook Pond is a stormwater detention pond that is a key facility in SPU’s provision of drainage services, and through the work of the artists, the pond and its surroundings have been transformed into a tranquil environment that can educate its users. The Refuge features pathways inset with mosaics as well as artist-designed bridges and structures that take one over streams and over the pond, and sound mirrors, all of which focus one’s attention on the sight and sounds of water collected from the local watershed. SPU has provided interpretive signage that describes the flora and fauna found at the site.
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Signs of Life/Water Conservation Project
N 73rd St and W Green Lake Drive N, Green Lake
Artists: Lucy Goodman and Ellen Ziegler
1998
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Located at Green Lake wading pool, this artwork is activated by the presence of water. A series of round concrete disks, painted with sealer, renders the imagery invisible until the concrete is dampened by rain or splashed with water from the adjacent pool; water brings the image to life, reinforcing the fundamental necessity of water to life.
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Cornerstones/Eastlake Project
Eastlake Avenue E from E Galer Street to E Fuhrman Street, Eastlake
Artist: Stacy Levy
1997
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Thirty-two cast glass and sandblasted stone sidewalk insets mark the route of a tunneled sewer line installed as part of an SPU Combined Sewer Outflow Project under Eastlake Avenue East. With support from the Eastlake Community Council and its members, artist Stacy Levy placed a series of square embedments at street corners along Eastlake Avenue East, unifying the arterial and coinciding with the sewer location. The cornerstones each depict different micro-organisms, such as protozoa, rotifers, algae, diatoms, and crustaceans found in Lake Union or on its shores, raising awareness of the urban ecology for the viewer by making “natural process and life forms visible and memorable.” Aquatic micro-organisms line the lake side with the terrestrial ones on the east side of the street. Adjacent glass insets call out the names of the cross streets and Eastlake Avenue and include a compass rose.
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Dreamboats/Eastlake Project
Eastlake Avenue E at Boston, Lynn and Roanoke Streets, Eastlake
Artists: Linda Beaumont, Stuart Keeler, Michael Machnic
1997
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Designed in conjunction with SPU’s Combined Sewer Outflow Project under Eastlake Avenue East, Dreamboats consists of three cast fiberglass canoes resting on steel armatures located on streets in the central business district of Eastlake. Each is different, with historical and cultural imagery cast into the hulls, and with a unique function assigned to each (bus shelter, bench and posting board for community notices). The canoes make reference to the local Lushootseed culture and the idea of travel by water which in turn reinforces the presence of bodies of water that topographically define Seattle and provides its resources.
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