UPDATE - 'The Passage' leaves Burien
UPDATE - 'The Passage' leaves Burien
Slideshow: The child portion of 'The Passage' sculpture seemingly watches as the mother is loaded on a flat bed truck for the journey back to northern California. Click on the image to see more photos from the story.
Photos by Keith Daigle
Wed, 12/16/2009
The Burien Interim Art Space is no more as the largest sculpture. "The Passage" was trucked away on Thursday, Dec. 17.
Smaller sculptures were removed over the weekend.
The space behind the Burien Town Square was used as a year-long art space after it was decided to put on hold the next phase of Town Square condominiums, because of the poor housing market.
It was below freezing last year when artists Karen Cusolito and Dan Dossmann from California installed the mother and child figures that make up the Passage artwork.
The large sculpture previously appeared at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. Cusolito joked on Wednesday that the next time she does a year-long sculpture installation in the Northwest it will be from July to June, not January to December.
They have to dig out the dirt around the sculptures and unbolt them from the concrete anchors in the ground.
