Do you like Echo, Seattle’s new Sculpture Park art?
May 15, 2014, 9:59 AM | Updated: May 13, 2016, 10:40 pm
Crews begin installing Echo at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Seattle's waterfront Thursday. (MyNorthwest.com/Alyssa Kleven)
(MyNorthwest.com/Alyssa Kleven)
A 46-foot-tall face, Echo, is nearly complete at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Seattle’s waterfront.
The face of a girl faces Puget Sound in the direction of Mount Olympus and is visible from land and water.
“Echo” is named after a nymph from Greek mythology who was deprived of speech, except to repeat the last words of another.
“It looks really, really big to the point where it’s almost an eyesore and feels like it’s out of place,” said KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz. “I tend to like art, especially when it’s in nature, to sort of be part of nature.”
But KIRO Radio’s Tom Tangney says in order for the art to make a statement, it needs to clash somewhat with the surroundings. That said, Tom thinks it looks a little like a sentinel welcoming ships into Elliott Bay.
“My instinct is, I think I’m going to like it,” he said.
The plus side is it’s easily identifiable as art, said Jason.
The work by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa has been given to the Seattle museum from the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth.
“Echo” was originally installed in 2011 in Madison Square Park in New York City. See the video:
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