Location: Spokane Community College

Date: 2020

Media: Unique cast bronze, Copper nickel pipe, Enamel pigment

Components: Columnar sculpture installed in small raindrop-shaped plaza featuring 39 bronze ‘water drops’ embedded in the ground plane

Dimensions: Sculpture: 148” x 50” x 52”; water drops each 2” x 3” x .25”

Commissioned by: Washington State Art in Public Places Project and the Spokane Community College

‘Forty Feet Down’ refers to the distance below grade of water connected to the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer at this particular site. The ten trillion gallon aquifer rests below the City of Spokane and the surrounding region. The adjacent, recently constructed addition to Spokane Community College’s “Old Main” building uses water from the aquifer for a geothermal heating and cooling system, returning the water to the aquifer unchanged after it passes through the system. This sculpture is our tribute to the precious water resource, illustrating ‘water’ sprays bursting from the top of an aged and textured pipe. Bronze Water drops are scattered across a small raindrop-shaped concrete plaza surrounding the sculpture.