Heaven and Earth 1: 2009 Heaven and Earth 2: 2010 Heaven and Earth 3: 2011 Heaven and Earth 4: 2012 Heaven and Earth 5: 2013 Heaven and Earth 6: 2014 Google+ Facebook Pinterest Printable Maps (pdf format): Coming Soon Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: Seattle Office of Arts & Culture 4CULTURE United Reprographics contact Thendara Kida-Gee to help support this year's show and artists.		Tom Hughes Vashon, WA http://www.tomhughes.org/ Glider I build structures to house text and/or add text to existing spaces to transform them into meaningful places. They are staged locations of life-acted-out, with the dialogue frozen for us to parse. We enter them with voices still lingering, and we piece together the action. The text reads like a voice - a human presence - that inhabits the form. Combined, these two elements create an anthropomorphic structure that has specific personal traits: maybe recklessness, desperation, playfulness, earnestness, compassion or anger. On one level, my work is existentially concerned with communication and language. On another, and to the same extent, it is about play, connection and relationships. The spaces and places I make seek to invoke often blur the public and the private. Bio: Tom Hughes (born Buffalo, NY 1972) Hughes currently lives and works in the Seattle area. His dad is a poet. He tries to read difficult books. His artwork has been exhibited throughout the US, as well as internationally in The Netherlands, France, Denmark, Italy, Brazil and Azerbaijan. His works are often involved with the human elements of systems such as language and architecture, and consequently also storytelling. Hughes earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, having prior studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is currently adjunct Faculty at Olympic College, Bremerton, WA. He recently abandoned plans to rebuild that old motorcycle. It wasn’t going to happen.