Participating Artists: Ingrid Lahti Piper O'Neill Eden Rivers Barbara De Pirro Ken Turner Miguel Edwards John Henry Wooten IV Anette Lusher Sylwia Tur Julie Fisco Julie Lindell Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: QFC Piper's Creek Nursery		Site 7: Miguel Edwards Seattle, Washington www.migueledwards.com Perseus: Steel, Stone, Solar powered LEDs, and mirror fragments 21' x 12', 2010 My name is Miguel Edwards. I was raised in El Rito, NM, and I have been a working artist in Seattle for the better part of two decades. My fine art and personal work has largely been photography and painting, which I have shown internationally. I did my first commissioned sculpture in 2000. My primary means of making a living for the last 8 years has been commercial metal work, ranging from architectural to furniture to custom made rigging for aerial artists. Last summer I was juried in to the first annual CoCA Heaven and Earth show with my sculpture "Que Viva El Sol / La Vida Del Sol". Early this year I built "Lampagon Corazon" at my shop in New Mexico, and secured representation at Shidoni Foundry and Galleries in Tesuque, NM and J Fine Art Gallery in Taos, NM. Recently I was both a commissioned and an invited artist for the 7th Annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival for a sculptural interactive bed piece and a photo printed on steel. The relationship between heaven and earth is always dynamic, and occasionally strained. Man has at many points tried to bring the two closer together, and this piece is a reference to that relationship. The legs nod to the tower of Babel, and the pendulum is symbolic of the man-made construct of time, which is infinite but still artificial, an allegory of our attempts to grasp heaven. This pendulum is curved with a secondary stone atop wrapped in mirror fragments, reflecting the heavens in all directions and lit from below with solar-powered LEDs. The sun comes down and powers the LEDs, which then shine back to the heavens, except for where the light intersects with the mirrored stone, heaven wrapped around earth, light bouncing and dancing and fighting with the earth below, the larger stone. Does man power heaven or does heaven power man? This piece weaves a simple yet intricate web of questions about the relationship of heaven and earth.