Brewing Storm, Stand of Firs + Longacres

Glenn Rudolph

Chinook Building

Sandblasted images on the north and south façades of the Chinook Building in Seattle capture three evocative King County landscapes, as documented by longtime Pacific Northwest photographer, Glenn Rudolph.

Two of the images are etched into the north wall: Brewing Storm, Pacific Crest Trail shows an electrical storm forming on the crest of the Cascade Mountains, between Stampede and Tacoma Passes, as the light was shifting rapidly. Stand of Firs, Cumberland depicts a clear-cut area in the Cascade foothills as the sun broke through the cloud cover to illuminate a stand of fir trees. On the south wall, Longacres, Kent reveals the ghostly infield of the abandoned Longacres Racetrack, which once resembled the famed Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, centering on a Hawthorne tree during a squall at dusk. The original photographs hang in the building’s first floor hallways.

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Based in Roslyn, WA, Rudolph is a photographer whose work frequently captures changes in the local landscape, which “always make for a choreography that is mercurial,” he says. “I return to the same landscapes and long-term projects for many years. The props and lighting are never the same. It’s like working with a still-life that never sits still.” Rudolph’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and has been shown regularly in the region since the late 1970s.

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