Seattle Art Museum Cafe

1321 2nd Avenue
February 9, 1996

I try to express graphically what a great city is doing. Within these frames there must be a balance, a controlling of these warring, pushing, pulling forces. - John Marin, Painter - 1913

The balance between push cart espresso and coffee from a can;
between Pike Place Market and Safeway;
between Red & Black Books and Barnes & Noble;
between the "Ave" and 1-90;
between the Interbay P-Patch and the Kingdome;
between the DESC and the Federal Building;
between Washington State Ferries and Boeing;
between Portage Bay houseboats and Harbor Steps condos;
between Mt. Rainier and Weyerhauser;
between Norm Stamper and Bill Gates;
between Capital Hill and Capital Hill;
between flying kites at Gas Works Park and driving past SeaTac;
between KPLU and KNDD;
between the Solstice Parade and the Torchlight Parade;

between growing up in the East and living in the West;
between the Garden State Parkway and I-5;
between what I have and what I want;
between who I am and who I want to be.