What You Have Become
Permanent Public Art Installation, Seattle, WA, 2023
What You have Become traces 14 moments in time through 30,000 years of this one city block in downtown Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center Summit Building.
Collaborations with community members and researchers informed the design of each piece. Objects and materials were salvaged, 3-D printed, handmade, and donated. Some objects are fragments of former public artworks; others were found buried in glacial clay during this building’s foundation excavation.
The title for this five-year project also originates from this site. In 2018, when this location was a soon-to-be demolished public transit tunnel, someone scrawled on a tile wall: This wall is a reflection of what you have become.
This permanent commission by 4Culture and the Washington State Convention Center was developed in collaboration with Studio Nucleo.
Lead Design Collaborators
Studio Nucleo: Resin fabricator
Jeremy Bosworth: Metal fabricator
Blanca Lighting
Per Brekke: initial shelving design
KingWorks Engineering
InSIte: Installation
Project Manager
Cath Brunner
Project Advisors
Jack Mackie, Transit Tunnel Artist Lead
Louise Hickman, Disability Access Researcher
Marina Grize, Curator + Artist
Transit Tunnel Artists
Alice Adams, Transit Tunnel Artist Lead Maggie Smith, Transit Tunnel Artist
Maren Hassenger, Transit Tunnel Artist
Community Research Collaborators
Jolene Hansen, Duwamish Longhouse Director
John Smith, Skokomish Carver
Bettie Luke
Clarence Moriwaki
Research and Production Support
Laura Phillips, Archaeology Collections Manager, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Jack Johnson, Curation Services, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Lorelea Hudson, Emeritus Archaeology Curation Services, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Alexander Stevenson, Historical Research Associates, Inc.
Robert Fisher, Collections Manager Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
Sharon Boswell, Seattle Historian + Writer
Katherine L. Anderson, Geology & Paleontology Collections Manager, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Michael Holland, 3D printing, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture