Many Threads, One Spool

Description: The spool sculpture is located between the community center’s main doors. Radiating from the base of the spool are six colorful “threads” made of colored cement. Each “thread” ends at a “nestpod,” a translucent resin pod set flush in the concrete and featuring nest-like sculptures suspended in the resin.

Artist Statement: The spool and the thread – ubiquitous and simple – from every corner of the world, people relate to their domestic usefulness. The thread weaves a path unique to its user – designed with infinite possibility. The migratory bird weaves its home after a long journey to improve its life, find a mate, raise children.

These threads illustrate the paths of our lives, intertwining and intersecting and colorful. The spool communicates the role of this community center within which our lives interact, a source of skills and learning experiences which we can weave into our homes. The birds on the spooltop carry our experiences and tools. Our nests are as diverse as we are. In the nestpods, I intend to depict a variety of meanings for home- stability, truth, potential, identity, hearth, and rest. 

Location: Van Asselt Community Center, 2820 South Myrtle Street, Seattle WA  98108