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Caldwell Sculpture Studio - Seattle, Wa

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Judith and Daniel Caldwell

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Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

Date: 2010

Media: Cast Bronze, Copper-nickel pipe, metal stains, colored concrete

Dimensions: Plaza 12’ x 12’ plus path; sculpture 144” x 48” x 36”.

Commissioned by: The King County Housing Authority for the Greenbridge Housing Development

The Rainbrella garden bench and umbrella reference an adjacent Bioswale, which drains storm water from the Greenbridge development. There are Bioswale plant images and text on the umbrella and an illustration of the water cycle on the oval bench. The plaza color mirrors the bright hues of nearby buildings. Local school children provided answers to this question, visible on the edge of the bench seat: “Hello Raindrop, Where in the World Have You Been?” Their sentences were cast into 43 bronze raindrops of varying sizes, and inset into the orange raindrop-shaped plaza and its curving pathway. This small park is located across the street from an Early Learning Center and one block from an elementary school.

Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

Date: 2010

Media: Cast Bronze, Copper-nickel pipe, metal stains, colored concrete

Dimensions: Plaza 12’ x 12’ plus path; sculpture 144” x 48” x 36”.

Commissioned by: The King County Housing Authority for the Greenbridge Housing Development

The Rainbrella garden bench and umbrella reference an adjacent Bioswale, which drains storm water from the Greenbridge development. There are Bioswale plant images and text on the umbrella and an illustration of the water cycle on the oval bench. The plaza color mirrors the bright hues of nearby buildings. Local school children provided answers to this question, visible on the edge of the bench seat: “Hello Raindrop, Where in the World Have You Been?” Their sentences were cast into 43 bronze raindrops of varying sizes, and inset into the orange raindrop-shaped plaza and its curving pathway. This small park is located across the street from an Early Learning Center and one block from an elementary school.

Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

A cast bronze garden seat anchors a raindrop-shaped concrete plaza inlaid with bronze castings. 

Rainbrella and Raindrop  Plaza

Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

Cast bronze garden sculpture with bronze umbrella, set on a small plaza inlaid with bronze "raindrops", at the Greenbridge Housing Development in White Center, south of Seattle.

Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

Rainbrella and Raindrop Plaza

Words along the front of the garden seat poses this question: "Hello Raindrop...where in the world have you been?"  Raindrops in the plaza paving are embossed with answers.

Rainbrella

Rainbrella

A fringed bronze umbrella tops the garden seat, with text and images related to plants growing in the adjacent bioswale.

Rainbrella

Rainbrella

The fringed bronze umbrella is crowned with a golden bronze sun, and decorated with images of plants from the adjacent bioswale.

Rainbrella

Rainbrella

This view of the fringed bronze umbrella shows the bioswale plant images, which are named on the underside of the umbrella.

Rainbrella

Rainbrella

The seat of the Rainbrella sculpture depicts the water cycle as you move around its oval shape. The installation is directly across the street from a new Early Learning Center and one-half block from an elementary school.

Civil Rights Raindrop

Civil Rights Raindrop

43 cast bronze raindrops inlaid into the orange concrete plaza answer the question posed on the edge of the bronze garden seat: "Hello Raindrop...Where in the World Have You Been?

Ghandi Fasting Raindrop

Ghandi Fasting Raindrop

Hoover Dam Raindrop

Hoover Dam Raindrop

Polar Ice Cap Raindrop

Polar Ice Cap Raindrop

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