Below are a few projects completed for the Historic Site(s) Specific Project, Washington State, USA.
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ABOUT TRACES OF OBSOLESCENCE
Public artist Sarah Kavage will research the photographic history of the Duwamish industrial area to create and install standing framed steel and glass photographic images at the 8th Avenue Bridge Landing site. This way viewers and passersby can see the translucent historic photos superimposed over the current view.
ABOUT THE ARTIST - SARAH KAVAGE
Sarah Kavage is a trained painter and photographer with a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from UW, both with 12 years of experience.
ABOUT 8TH AVE BRIDGE LANDING
The 8th Avenue South Bridge once connected Georgetown with South Park over the Duwamish. It was built in 1914-15, and later relocated in 1923. It was ultimately closed in 1937, before being dismantled.
Today, there is a Port of Seattle park near the location where the southern landing of the bridge once stood. This park features large bridge gears painted a vibrant red – a homage to the history of the site.
ABOUT LAKE WASHINGTON PALIMPSEST/WINTER’S VEIL
This two-part project Lake Washington Palimpsest and Winter’s Veil will explore the connection between Winters House, the Mercer Slough and the lowering of Lake Washington and it’s impact on the landscape.
Lake Washington Palimpsest
Bellevue College Gallery Space
Building D, second floor, room D 271 (above the Library)
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007
Bellevue College Gallery Space
Building D, second floor, room D 271 (above the Library)
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9:30 am-4 pm.
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 14, 4-7 p.m.
Special viewing: Saturday, January 24, noon- 4 p.m
Closing reception: Sunday, February 15, noon- 4 p.m.
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 14, 4-7 p.m.
Special viewing: Saturday, January 24, noon- 4 p.m
Closing reception: Sunday, February 15, noon- 4 p.m.
Lake Washington Palimpsest juxtaposes lush landscape imagery with concrete traces of the historic alteration of Lake Washington, representing this transformation through black and white pinhole photographs, a sound collage of field recordings, and an innovative approach to wall text, creating an exhibition that is evocative and thought provoking. The large-format photographs circumnavigate the lake, recording places that were most significantly changed, while the soundscape places the viewer at the water’s edge: from the serenity of water lapping on the shoreline to the chiming of halyards and oarlocks clanking on a rowboat.
Winter’s Veil
Winters House
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday- Sunday 10 am-2 pm
Opening event: Saturday, January 24, 11 am- 2 pm
Winters House
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday- Sunday 10 am-2 pm
Opening event: Saturday, January 24, 11 am- 2 pm
Winter’s Veil, two installations at the Frederick Winters House and the adjacent boiler building at the entrance to the Mercer Slough will take the viewer from this larger environmental overview to an intimate glimpse of the life and times of individuals who profited from this transformation.
Sollod has developed an original multimedia installation inviting visitors to experience the charms of the site and appreciate its history. She has transformed the Winters House breakfast room into a camera obscura—bringing the surrounding landscape indoors—and created an original audio installation in collaboration with sound designer Johanna Melamed. The audio combines archival radio footage with sounds of breakfast, weather, and household activities. Nearby, at the entrance to the Slough, a profusion of flowering bulbs, that Sollod has forced over the winter, will be installed in the remnants of the boiler building of the Winters’ bulb farm, referencing the building’s original use.
Complementing Winter’s Veil, Eastside Heritage Center will present an interpretive exhibit on site about the history of the lowering of the Lake, discussing its impact on the Mercer Slough property as well as other places, businesses and people in Bellevue and the surrounding area.
ABOUT THE ARTIST - ELLEN SOLLOD
Known for her large scale public artworks around the Northwest, multidisciplinary artist Ellen Sollod has also created a number of site specific installations that reference the history and character of the places they inhabit, including Jack Straw Foundation, Smith Tower and Pier 62/63. Johanna Melamed has designed sound for Porkfilled Players, ACT, True Colors in Atlanta and Willamette University theater. This is their second collaborative work.
ABOUT F.W. WINTERS HOUSE
Built in 1929 by Frederick and Cecelia Winters, the Winters House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1992 it was recognized by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation for its excellent restoration.
The Winters House is significant both for its distinctive architectural character reflecting the Spanish Eclectic style, and its association with bulb growing and the floricultural industry in King County and Washington State. It is one of the few buildings associated with the past agricultural activity in the Bellevue area that remains on its original site and has retained its architectural integrity.
The Winters settled in the Bellevue area in 1916, and purchased 10 acres along the Mercer Slough in 1917, where they established a wholesale floral business. By 1924, they had built several greenhouses on the property and purchased an additional 10 acres in the area in order to expand their business into flower bulb farming.
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