Kings County Courthouse

Seattle, WA - 1998

For the King County Court House rotunda near Seattle, I designed 6 bronze relief medallions celebrating different aspects of the area’s history and culture. The imagery in each medallion appears to be seen from above. My works consisted of:

A round salmon basket featuring very realistic relief carvings of salmon with a Salish female artist’s traditional stylized tribal design nestled with them in the basket as well.

A bronze relief of a Japanese truck farmer wearing a sampan hat and holding a traditionally crafted wooden strawberry basket.

A relief of different heads of lettuce growing in the soil, referencing the yearly lettuce festival, one of the area’s main crops.

A circular hops basket, a crop used in beer making, referring to the hops farming done by local German farmers.

A relief depicting the grain of the sawed off ends of forested trees, with rectilinear cut marks to indicate the shape of the finished planed beams.

Lastly, a relief featuring the winding rivers and farm field patterns of the area. This one was heavily inspired by my childhood flying with my pilot mother and watching the shapes of the landscape far below.