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January 20, 2012
in Olympic Sculpture Park Richard Serra SAM sculpture Wake weathering steel Seattle Washington USA
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Wake, Richard Serra on Flickr.Richard Serra, Wake 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington Photographs: Matt Niebuhr, 2010 One aspect that I really appreciate about Serra’s work with weathering steel, is the material responding to environmental conditions, (developing a unique skin appearance over time) It is this aspect of understanding how materials age, that creates the opportunity for something unique to become relative to place / shape.

Wake, Richard Serra on Flickr.

Richard Serra, Wake 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

Photographs: Matt Niebuhr, 2010

One aspect that I really appreciate about Serra’s work with weathering steel, is the material responding to environmental conditions, (developing a unique skin appearance over time) It is this aspect of understanding how materials age, that creates the opportunity for something unique to become relative to place / shape.

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