Participating Artists: Barbara De Pirro Miguel Edwards Aaron Haba Meredith Hall and Vaughn Bell Todd Lawson Julie Lindell Peppé Stephen Rock Gerry Stecca Kristin Tollefson Sylwia Tur Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Department of Neighborhoods Supported by: Seattle Weekly Piper's Creek Nursery Hardware Sales, Bellingham, WA Ballard Hardware Ballard Sheet Metal		Site 12: Julie Lindell Seattle, Washington www.julielindell.org About the Arist: Julie Lindell is a Seattle artist educated at Cornish College of the Arts. She has recently finished a 2 year residency at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, where she began the large branch sculpture series, “Revolution.” Visitor is the fifth branch sculpture in the Revolution series. Lindell ‘s work is allegorical in nature. Each piece is part of a story, or a drama, growing within a series of individual pieces. Currently her work can be seen at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California; Tryon Creek State Park, Portland, Oregon; Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, Washington; the Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection; as well as private collections. She is a recipient of a James and Janie Washington Foundation residency for the 2009/2010 season Artist's Statment: “Visitor” is part of a story of how tree branches have bound themselves together to protest global climate changes. Heaven: The concept of a magical afterlife where earthly limitations no longer exist: …Where anything is possible… Lindell’s branch sculptures invite viewers to imagine how it was made and what it is doing here. Its lack of internal structure and construction marks lends itself well to the question of whether it could be some kind of natural phenomenon. The broken sticks and branches used in Lindell’s sculpture have been collected from roadsides, vacant lots, wooded parks and residential yards. These are branches downed prematurely as a byproduct of human development. They serve as a symbol of our fractured environment and a reminder of how trees are affected by the increasingly violent storms, droughts, and floods of recent years. Disarticulated branches, robbed of their usefulness, now find new meaning and purpose in Julie Lindell’s sculpture. In Julie Lindell’s work, gigantic accumulations of broken sticks take on different shapes and travel from place to place campaigning for trees and branches.