Stainless steel, aluminum, powder coating, LED lights
18’x6’x6’
2020
‘Returning Home’ is a permanent public art installation at Plymouth Housing's new building in Seattle's International District. Plymouth Housing builds and manages supportive housing for individuals experiencing long term homelessness.
The work features a wind-powered sculpture comprised of a flock of cranes ascending upwards and returning home to their nest in a continual cycle. It was created using 500lbs of stainless steel and aluminum. The sculpture features origami red-crowned cranes to commemorate the local Japanese business that once operated at this site. The nest below glows at night and doubles as seating for pedestrians.
Cranes are international travelers, with migration routes defying national borders. Because of this, they are emblematic of resiliency and unity among diverse peoples. They are icons of survival, traversing epic proportions in both distance and altitude and outliving mass habitat destruction. We believe they represent the search for home and belonging, and the extraordinary resilience of one's spirit to rise above adversity.
Stainless steel, aluminum, LED lights
18’x6’x6’
2020
‘Returning Home’ is a permanent public art installation at Plymouth Housing's new building in Seattle's International District. Plymouth Housing builds and manages supportive housing for individuals experiencing long term homelessness.
'Returning Home,' is a wind-powered sculpture comprised of a flock of cranes ascending upwards and returning home to their nest in a continual cycle. It was created using 500lbs of stainless steel and aluminum. The sculpture features origami red-crowned cranes to commemorate the local Japanese business that once operated at this site. The nest below glows at night and doubles as seating for pedestrians.
Cranes are international travelers, with migration routes defying national borders. Because of this, they are emblematic of resiliency and unity among diverse peoples. They are icons of survival, traversing epic proportions in both distance and altitude and outliving mass habitat destruction. We believe they represent the search for home and belonging, and the extraordinary resilience of one's spirit to rise above adversity.