The Future Dreaming
2000
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6’ tall with life size bronze figure
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Bronze
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_ Sultan City Hall
Sultan, WA |
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In the fall of 1999 I was asked by the City of Sultan to aid in the design
review plans forthe new Community
Center which would house the public library, City Hall and community meeting
room. When the construction began, I was commissioned to create a sculpture for
the lobby that somehow, like the building, expressed the towns history; past,
present and future. The architectural elements considered in the design where
high windows on the west wall, a balcony overlooking the site on the east
balcony and a time capsule filled with items from that year sealed for 100 year
underneath the sculpture. The sculpture takes advantage of all these elements,
depicting a child sitting on a stump, gazing upward lost in though, towards the
sky beyond those high windows. ‘The Future Dreaming’ sitting on a stump
represents Sultan’s logging history, with the time capsule underneath the
sculpture representing the towns present and the day dreaming child
representing the future.