Cloud Rider

Description: Each sculpture depicts a winged bicycle rider, rising from a cloud on top of a column. There are two riders depicted, one female (blue) and one male (pink). The wings are gold plated. Figures wear bike helmets. The bikes are two different styles – a mountain bike with flat handlebars and a step-through, commuter style. The figures and bikes are fabricated together in aluminum and industrial painted. At the base of each column is the symbol of the Duwamish people.

Artist Statement: The two bicycle riders represented in this piece ride among the clouds, as all do who ride in Seattle. At the base of each column is the symbol of the Duwamish people, “The People of the Inside,” living between the Cascades and the Olympics. As we ride these paths, we remember them, the first and future riders of these hills.

Location: Located on the Chief Sealth Trail at Beacon Avenue South and South Dawson Street, on the east and west sides of Beacon Avenue South, Seattle WA  98108