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SeaTac Expansion Project, South Terminal, 2001-2003 Traveling Light Traveling Inside Within the new concourse of SeaTac Airport, these luminous walls create a hearth. Over 350 feet long and ten feet tall, the walls are located on the concourse level creating something of a glass corral for all international travelers to pass through... out to their gate or out of the air and on their way down to baggage. Corner Cross Section The glowing transparency of the walls reveals a story of mythic proportion, and a story rooted in the world of the Pacific Northwest. Close up The graphic images for the piece are quintessentially Pacific Northwest. The composition uses cross sections of old growth trees embedded into amber layers of glass. The growth rings count into the hundreds. These trees, native to the Pacific Northwest, grew to more than ten feet in diameter, making them wider than the walls of glass are tall. Cross Section with Glider The images are created through lamination of two layers of glass, silk screened, airbrushed, and hand painted. Using silverstain and transparent earth reds, the images seem to be on fire with energy. The incredible transparency of silverstain is doubled on the two layers of glass, giving the cross sections a feeling of depth, and of being trapped within the amber glass. Manly Man The use of historic photos from the logging of the old growth forest are also used. They are by the photographer Darius Kinsey and his brother Clark Kinsey. One shows a man standing on the cut of a huge tree. The image is iconic and a powerful reminder of the time. Earth Tree Mother Adjacent to this image is a photo of a tree still standing, anthropomorphic and a beautiful reminder of the spirit of the forest. These images are not silk screened but created with a new means of layering of the photo image. Another historic photo shows a ghost image of two men cutting a huge tall tree, leaving the trunk at 20 feet high... and this image is joined by a photo of the forest today, where trees have grown onto these nurse stumps and nurse logs. Sequoia Wall One of the walls is created from a photo of a well known core sample of a Sequoia tree. the sample has curving tree rings that show the rapid growth of the tree after surviving four forest fires. The ability to heal, and grow over the burn from the fire is truly amazing. These trees grew to more than 20 feet in diameter... the giants of the earth. An abstract design of flight. the core sample was enlarged digitally and "book matched" creating. They are organic and look like butterfly wings to some people, like air currents to others. Close Up Sequoia The wall is between the busy concourse and the escalator. There is a shadow play of the travelers on either side of the wall. Glider Also, gliding through space and time is Lilienthal, in his famous winged gliding photo. It is ghostly, and creates an image that takes us into that dream world... almost as if he is trapped in amber. Linda Flies!