Heaven and Earth 1: 2009 Heaven and Earth 2: 2010 Heaven and Earth 3: 2011 Heaven and Earth 4: 2012 Printable Maps (pdf format): letter size: 8 1/2" x 11" tabloid size: 11" x 17" original size: 17.5" x 14" Participating Artists: Seattle: Julie Lindell Joe Reno Miguel Edwards Viewlands Group Peppé Brenda Scallon Alan Fulle Suze Woolf Cameron Mason & Lara McIntosh Josho Somine Rebecca Maxim Garry Golightly The Unearth Collective Bellevue and Sammamish: Fox Anthony Spears Suzanne Tidwell California: Judy Shintani Oregon: Lee Imonen Vancouver BC: Tiki Mulvihill Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs 4Culture Site Specific Supported by: QFC: Quality Food Centers University Bookstore Pacific Industrial Supply Pacific Topsoils, Inc. Green Bean Coffee House The Revere Group Jonathon Cluts contact David Francis or Ray Freeman to help support this year's show and artists.		Site 14: Rebecca Maxim with Joe LeGore Seattle, Washington A M's Mended Heart 2012 This piece was inspired by an interaction I had with another artist I met at a gallery. As we were talking she asked what my day job was and I told her I was a nurse. She then related her personal story of a potentially terminal case of lymphoma, where the tumor, which originated in her chest, had grown through the superior vena cava, a large vessel that extends from the right atrium of the heart. She had a successful surgery where they resected the tumor and replaced her superior vena cava with a synthetic material. She received chemotherapeutic treatment and is now in remission. During this conversation I had a strong visual of this mended heart and decided to make it, but wasn't sure how it would manifest. Later, when she and I met again and I told her of my plan, she revealed that while she was undergoing treatment she had dreams that the tumor was a big tree growing up through her heart. Then it became clear; the heart needs to have a tree through it and Carkeek Park is an ideal location. Statement: A M's Mended Heart is a idea made more real by the intention of Heaven and Earth. I had considered making it as guerilla art, but this exhibit gives it more meaning. I read in the call for art, that the 120 year old orchard represents the “heart” of the park; survivng the encroachment of the forest by park maintainence. The old tree, which I hope to use, is in the middle of the orchard and looks strikingly like the protruding vessels from the top of the heart. Like A M's real heart, the heart sculpture will wear away with time, but the synthetic superior vena cava should remain mostly intact. Bio: Rebecca Maxim has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1977. She studied dance and fiber arts while at Evergreen State College and later earned degrees in nursing and Chinese medicine. After years of working as a nurse at Bailey Boushay House, Rebecca went back to fiber arts and has been working with discarded or found materials by manipulating them into a “fabric” or any application that can translate into the sculptural form of haute couture. Her special interest is problem solving the use of unusual materials such as trash, construction debris, coffee filters, tire tubes, discarded electronics and technology that is rapidly becoming obsolete such as DVDs, CDs and videotape. Rebecca's work is less about fashion and more about transforming the trash of consumerism into objects that are usually highly valued in our culture in order to make this detritus less invisible. She uses traditional techniques like crochet, sewing, quilting and weaving. Her work has been shown in runway shows and installations in Washington and California.