The otherwise flat, and very open Lake Union Park was once a verdant tapestry like the scene now hitched to this stretched farm implement. Before the Ship Canal was dredged, before Gas Works powered the City, before Denny regraded the area and his mills processed the timber, the Vashon glacier cut the “small lake,” as the Duwamish called it, within a sprawling forest near the Sea. Big Barrow carries with it a bounty of trees and shrubs native to the Pacific Northwest. A striking 20’ long mobile slice of the local forest will be a beacon for attendees to gather.

The installation aims to provide visitors the pleasant effect plantings have on our public realm. Shade on a hot summer day; sounds of foliage rustling in the wind; birds, bees, and other bugs buzzing about. Conversations take place between tree trunks and through grasses.