Participating Artists: at Carkeek Park: Anette Lusher April Lelia Thendara Kida Gee Chris Papa Barbara De Pirro Gabriel Brown Aaron Haba Brian Gerich Miguel Edwards By Hand Fiber Consortium Reginald Brooks Stephen Rock Zucker, Turner, Jacobson Peppé Julie Lindell Matt Babcock at Point Shilshole Beach: David Francis Dan Smith Sylwia Tur Eden Rivers Teresa Burrelsman Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: 4Culture Site Specific Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs QFC Potter Construction		Site B: Teresa Burrelsman Seattle, Washington Holdfast 2011 The intertidal zone is the place where people and marine life interact, but in reality we all impact everything downstream of us, every day. We all live in a watershed, all the time. The prospect of temporary art in the ever shifting tidal area is exciting, a great opportunity to create dialogue and introspection about how the concept of “we” includes everything from “me”, to “my neighborhood”, to my “waste stream”, to my “food cycle” and the creatures therein, to my “watershed” and how one may be impacting it, knowingly or not. The sensitive and changing nature of the tide flats makes a challenging site, from both a “temporary permanence” logistical aspect and from an eco-impact perspective. In designing a piece for this site, I wanted to work with the tides rather than against them, making the tide changes part of the art. The Holdfast piece changes, creating different expressions at high vs. low tides. At high tide, viewers might see the floating salmon figures and think they are alive, or wonder if they are accidental trash washing ashore. At low tide, the salmon and their ties to an anchoring rock could evoke young salmon at play and feeding amongst eel grass, but also remind one of a bunch of deflated balloons found on the beach or the Pacific trash vortex that floats indefinitely in the far reaches of the sea. These sets of dualities parallel our own duality – of being both outside and inside natural cycles, of wanting to be good planetary citizens but wanting also to keep our current American way of life.