The Future Dreaming

2000

6’ tall with life size bronze figure

Bronze

_ Sultan City Hall
Sultan, WA

_  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.