Interbay P-Patch, Seattle, Looking South, March 4, 1986
Artist
Ford Gilbreath
MediumSelenium toned silver print
Dimensions20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
The Interbay P-Patch is a community garden located north of Elliott Bay that is administered by the City of Seattle and nurtured by individual gardeners who tend their plots. One such gardener is Thoni, a woman who produces many bushels of vegetables yearly and gives most to a Seattle food bank. I luckily found the Interbay P-Patch wile walking around in the early morning of October 16th, 1983, and immediately fell in love with the place. The artist began photographing the place several times a week for a full year. He still likes to visit this place of produce.