PETER RICHARDS ART
  • Permanent Installations
    • Arbor Vitae
    • Blanche
    • Byxbee Park
    • Companion Place
    • The Commons
    • Data
    • La Sombra Danza
    • La Viajera
    • Percival Footbridge
    • Philosophers Way
    • Rainbow Recreation Center
    • The Spring
    • Sky Sweeps
    • Watershed
    • Wave Organ
    • A Way of Seeing as it Happens
    • Wind Riders
    • Wind Wall
  • Temporary Installations
    • Cascade Creek Flume
    • Clapotis
    • Le Pont Romaine
    • Wind Ride
  • Artist Statement
  • Resume / CV

Sky Sweeps, 2006

Sky Sweeps serves as mediator between the area’s lumber and maritime history and its future. The three pivoting sweeps (a term for a long oar) are each 85’ high and are counter balanced to record the movements of the prevailing on-shore winds from the west.
Location: Aberdeen, Washington
​Materials:
 steel, concrete
Size: 85’H x 15’W
Collaborator:  Sue Richards
Sponsor:  Washington State Arts Commission
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Photo: Ed Jaramillio
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  • Permanent Installations
    • Arbor Vitae
    • Blanche
    • Byxbee Park
    • Companion Place
    • The Commons
    • Data
    • La Sombra Danza
    • La Viajera
    • Percival Footbridge
    • Philosophers Way
    • Rainbow Recreation Center
    • The Spring
    • Sky Sweeps
    • Watershed
    • Wave Organ
    • A Way of Seeing as it Happens
    • Wind Riders
    • Wind Wall
  • Temporary Installations
    • Cascade Creek Flume
    • Clapotis
    • Le Pont Romaine
    • Wind Ride
  • Artist Statement
  • Resume / CV