Info on this beautiful statue, A Salish Welcome from Street Art of Seattle:
A full-blooded Salish, Marvin Oliver has preserved some
of the traditional proportions and garments that distinguish his
lineage. Here he uses them in a larger-than-life welcoming figure,
massively produced in bronze for the banks of the Lake Washington Ship
Canal in Ballard, to celebrate the shores' preservation by Groundswell
Northwest.
Oliver has increased the verismo
of his figure by the intricate use of contrasting finishes, or patinas.
This man has deep bronze-brown skin and a metallic silver robe with
lighter brown stripes. The statue stands on a corroded iron pedestal
with cut-outs of salmon on the sides. The figure holds up a colorful
disk in welcome; a substitution for the Pentacle that symbolizes all the
heat and light in Planet Earth.
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