Marking Place

Marking Place is the third in a series of collaborative works by Susan Gans and David Traylor to explore ideas that refer to landscape and place. The format for this exhibition reverts back to a multimedia approach including guest artists, Clint Ceder and Yun Hong Chang, as part of the project team. This work involves both serious reflection and play on the ways the urban environment is viewed and the decisions made to protect or restore it. And it poses the question about the process assumed to create livable and well designed spaces. Susan’s photographic images look at sites in the cycle of change while the small scale marker created by David and Clint Ceder (shown in the montage poster created by Susan) became a ” surveyor’s rod “ to measure actual changes witnessed from earlier restoration or rebuilding of sites that have become iconic symbols in Seattle.