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6/19/2011

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john grade, seattle, washington, environmental art, resin,

john grade, Mantle

Installed at Bitterlake Reservoir Seattle WA

Salvaged wood platform and corn-based resin upper form.  Thirty feet high, sited September 2009-January 2010.  Resin degrades naturally upon contact with moisture.  Molded in multiple layers (skins) that degrade at different rates, the sculpture unpeels like an onion first in a semi-spherical ring and then in horizontal sheets.