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The work bamboo, luminous, by Vancouver, B.C., artists Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew, is a glowing stand of resin “bamboo” shoots that marks the entry to the Fire Station 10 and Fire Alarm Center/Emergency Operations Center in Seattle’s Chinatown/International District. Bamboo symbolizes grace, enlightenment, strength and the ability to adapt – qualities the artists saw in the immigrant residents of the International District.


Douglas Taylor’s Birdsong Listening Station at Seattle Center is a kinetic and interactive sculpture that harnesses and uses the renewable energy sources of wind and sunlight. As breezes fill the three 15-foot sails and rotate the wind turbine, a small generator supplies power to the sculpture’s audio components. Listeners standing beneath the station’s sound dome will hear recordings of calling songs from a variety of western finches. Solar panels supply power when there isn’t sufficient wind energy.


Ruri Yampolsky, Director, Public Art Program, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs


enlightenment, strength and the ability to adapt


Bamboo symbolizes grace,


Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew, bamboo, luminous, 2007. Located at Fire Station 10 and Fire Alarm Center/ Emergency Operations Center, East side of Fire Station #10, 105 5th Ave., Seattle, Wash.


Photo by Spike Mafford © 2008.


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