Equality
Artist
Rolon Bert Garner
Artist
Ken Leback
MediumGranite, bronze
DimensionsBronze house: 2 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 ft. (61 x 76.2 x 83.8 cm)
Granite houses: 16 x 24 x 30 in. (40.6 x 61 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineSeattle Public Utilities (formerly Water Department) 1% for Art funds
Description: Equality features thirty-five granite houses, sitting in a grid on dark gray, polished granite pavers within 990 square feet. Facing the thirty-five houses is a circular path encompassing a grass berm on which sits a concrete pillar topped by one more house. Among the houses in the grid is a space with a plaque bearing a quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville’s "Democracy in America:"
Providence has not created mankind entirely free. It is true that around every man a fatal circle is traced beyond which he cannot pass, but within the wide verge of that circle he is powerful and free; as it is with man, so with communities. The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or to freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.
Location: I-90 Viewpoint, Sturgus Park, on the trail and near 904 Sturgus Avenue South, Seattle WA 98144
