Pond in a Bowl
Veronica•Jun 20, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026
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Seattle artists Dawn Cerny and Bristol Hayward-Hughes have collaborated to make six sculptures for Pond in a Bowl that will serve as bird feeders, pollinator rest stops and poetry kiosks. The writer and artist Ed Steck (Pittsburgh, PA) developed a series of poems that have been printed onto an edition of postcards and trifold pamphlets, which will be installed on the Cerny and Hayward-Hughes’s sculptures for visitors to take. These sculptures will carve out places to hold water, birdseed and nest-building material for the birds, animals and pollinators to take. This exhibition conceives outdoor sculptures as sites for collaboration with mutable conditions – human, animal, plant and insect; the light and the conditions of the place endlessly change. This project is tied to the environmental and social ecology of the garden or park as a place that invites hospitality, rest and survival.
Dawn Cerny's (b. 1979, Carpinteria, CA) sculptures and drawings begin with the notion that “furniture”…
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Pond in a Bowl
Veronica•Jun 20, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026
Press Release
Seattle artists Dawn Cerny and Bristol Hayward-Hughes have collaborated to make six sculptures for Pond in a Bowl that will serve as bird feeders, pollinator rest stops and poetry kiosks. The writer and artist Ed Steck (Pittsburgh, PA) developed a series of poems that have been printed onto an edition of postcards and trifold pamphlets, which will be installed on the Cerny and Hayward-Hughes’s sculptures for visitors to take. These sculptures will carve out places to hold water, birdseed and nest-building material for the birds, animals and pollinators to take. This exhibition conceives outdoor sculptures as sites for collaboration with mutable conditions – human, animal, plant and insect; the light and the conditions of the place endlessly change. This project is tied to the environmental and social ecology of the garden or park as a place that invites hospitality, rest and survival.
Dawn Cerny's (b. 1979, Carpinteria, CA) sculptures and drawings begin with the notion that “furniture”…
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