Alluvion

2017 steel

Commissioned by City of Tacoma, WA

Artwork for a new park on the site of a previous industrial smelter that deposited 11 acres of toxic slag into Puget Sound. It then became a EPA Superfund site, now transformed into a new waterfront park sitting on top of the slag. A vertical steel pipe evokes the 562’ tall smelter smokestack that once stood nearby. Each subsequent row consists of the same 15’ pipe cut into smaller and smaller segments, the last row comprised of 256 separate pieces.