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Photo credit: Laura Swimmer Safeco Field Rotunda Entry, 1998-1999 "The Tempest" Composed of over 1500 translucent baseball bats arcing throughout an aluminum armature takes the spiraling form of a tempest storm. The sculpture is 40' across at top in an 80 foot circular space, 20' in height, with the eye of the storm just 12' above the Grand Stairway. A computer lighting system of strobes and incandescent lights animates the sculpture that is suspended within the Rotunda Entry .This is one of four pieces in the entry created in collaboration with Stuart Keeler and Michael Machnic. The Portal Gates, the Sea Floor and Grand Stairway, and the Compass Rose, a terrazzo carpet on the Concourse are also within the commissioned work. >> additional images Photo credit: Spike Mafford The Compass Rose, 1999 Composed of shimmering terrazzo filled with shells, stones, glass and mirrored shards. From the navigation of mariners at sea, to the symbol of the Mariner's team logo, to actual way finding within the stadium, the Compass Rose works as a small but focal piece of the whole of the concourse level of Safeco Field. The glass portholes are mirrored and hold the signatures of the inaugural team. Quotations from several sources circle through the terrazzo. The Compass Rose rests like a huge magnet at the top of the grand staircase, on the concourse level where one first sees the green field below. diameter 22' >> additional images Photo credit: Spike Mafford Portal Gates These are the graceful lines of rigging of tall ships, and the lines of a baseball diamond . Included as the ellipse of the pitcher's mound are quotes about baseball from Literature. >> more images