Bronze Sculpture |
By Gerard Tsutakawa
Illumination
Location: Aberdeen Timberland Library
Wishkah and I Street
Concept statement by sculptor Gerard Tsutakawa
“Libraries promote reading, and books offer access to a limitless world of ideas and knowledge of human experience: every corner of the world, every aspect of human existence; arts, literature, philosophy, history, commerce. Exposure to new concepts illuminates our minds and spirits. What better symbol for a library than the universal symbol of illumination, the Sun.”
History
Kathryn N. Sherk’s (February 2000) bequest, administered by Grays Harbor Community Foundation, for capital improvements to the Aberdeen Timberland Library, came at the time the Aberdeen Library Renovation Project was nearing completion and sparked a new vision for parking and access to the library. The City purchased the property that joined the Library to Wishkah Street with the purpose of adding much needed parking with an adjacent entrance for drivers and pedestrians.
The Library Board and staff joined with community members working with the City of Aberdeen to improve sidewalks and lighting in the immediate area. They added landscaping and structural elements, color panels to an adjoining wall and commissioned “Illumination” by Gerard Tsutakawa.
Today, this corner of Aberdeen stands transformed – a testimony to the many people who acted on their vision of something special for Aberdeen.
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