At the intersection of Elliott and Broad, Belltown recently welcomed a new neighbor. The sixty-foot nurse log, relocated from the Cedar River Watershed (the source of our water), will be the central character in Mark Dion's Seattle Vivarium, commissioned for the Olympic Sculpture Park, opening October 28th.
When it is enclosed in a custom eighty-foot greenhouse with visible complex mechanical systems, Mark's work will help us explore our ideas about nature and the complexity of her cycles and processes, and reveal how difficult it is for man to duplicate what nature does on its own. All from the perspective of an urban center surrounded by natural beauty, at the intersection of art and science.
Also of interest: the arrival - more pictures | Mark Dion's Mobile Bio-Type Jungle | The drowning of Moncton
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