Public Art -- Seattle

The Space Needle in Seattle. It's a tourist's trap, but worth doing at least once in your lifetime. Bring 20 bucks just to get to the top and another 20 to 40 bucks to eat and drink...minimum.

A large bronze pig near Pike Place. It's actually a piggy bank. On the back there is a slot where you can donate money. The collections are for the less fortunate in the Seattle area.

Right below the Space Needle are many public sculptures.

 

A different angle of the same sculpture above.

Not Seattle but San Juan Island. She's beautiful and looks like she should be on the bow of a ship...but she is mounted outside a bar and restaurant.

At the base of the Space Needle there is this bright red sculpture. It's made of large sections of metal pipe welded together. Like all the other shots I take, I waited a long time to get the shot with no people in it. Yes, you don't see them, but there are three people in this pic.. I waited about 10 minutes to get the right shot.

Black Lightning...right at the base of the Space Needle. Seattle has an abundance of public art. The city even has an ordinance requiring it for new construction.

A totem pole right at the base of the Space Needle.

An angle of the EMP Museum. Ironically proximate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation office. Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, financed much of the EMP Museum's construction. The two had a falling out of sorts years ago.

The Seattle Art Museum or SAM. The is actually a kinetic statue. The hammer arm is constantly striking.

I wasn't able to figure out the name of this statuary when I was taking the pics, but later found a reference to Bamboo Forest. These are large sections of metal nearly an inch thick and chemically stained. They are beautiful. And, again, I timed my shot with minimal humans...because we are about human expression...not humans.

Another shot of the Bamboo Forest next to the EMP Museum.

 

A statue of a Native American. Seattle is a Native American name.