Beacon Hill Station and Tunnel - Public Art

Station Plaza - Carl Smool

Community Threads

Artist Carl Smool derived inspiration from textile patterns from around the world to create a multiple-installation artwork for the street-level plaza of the station. The patterns, gathered from samples submitted by the Beacon Hill community, will be reflected in three ways: cut-metal banners attached to poles at the station entrance, etched "carpets" in the plaza's granite walkway, and on a cut-metal louver on the north face of the station's above-ground structure.

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Station Interiors - Dan Corson

Elevator Lobby - "Portals"

Upon stepping off the elevators into the station interiors, visitors will experience "Portals” -
a series of cast-glass viewing windows. The "Portals" look into distorted objects of
indeterminate scale and origin creating the illusion of looking out into a field of space
creatures and/or looking at a collection of nematodes magnified straight from the soil
surrounding the underground station.

Platforms - "Space Forms"

Suspended from the platform ceiling are a series of “Space Forms,” artwork consisting of
translucent and brightly colored, internally illuminated 3-D shapes. The “Space Forms” conjure
up questions of scale and content. Are these forms giant floating creatures in space? Microscopic
creatures floating under a microscope?

Beacon Hill Tunnel - Bill Bell

"Lightsticks"

A series of LED "lightsticks" embedded in the walls of the light rail tunnel offer an fleeting glance at images and words for riders looking out the windows of the passing train. For 1/30th of a second at a time, viewers might see a series of playing cards upon which they can build a game of chance, or a set of random words upon which an ad-hoc poem can be built. "Lightsticks" is an extension of Bill Bell's project that can be see now at University Street Station in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT).