My Memories

Father and son

If city administrators felt any discomfort, they solved it by handing off the money to the Seattle Art Museum to commission a work for the Olympic Sculpture Park. Lucky for us, because the museum arranged for a truly wonderful artist to fulfill the commission. Louise Bourgeois was born in France and has lived in New York since the 1930s. Even now, in her 90s, she is known for work that's bold and original. She looks deep into the human psyche for metaphors. In this case, she says, nudity is about vulnerability.
  
In her stainless-steel fountain, two life-size figures — a father and young son — reach for each other but are obscured by a cloak of falling water that shifts every hour to reveal one then the other. Asked if she would visit Seattle to see the fountain, Bourgeois quipped: "I only travel in time, not in space."