The good news, Eric, is that salmon are in Seattle. The Soul Salmon 2001 project unveiled its fundraising raffle salmon sculpture at the Stonington Gallery early in August. And Bumbershoot, who is always ahead of the curve, will show ten more Soul Salmon at this fall's festival reimagined by ten notable Northwest artists. Not surprisingly, communities around Puget Sound are interested in Soul Salmon, which are to be displayed regionally in 2001. All proceeds are to benefit salmon restoration or other charities chosen by each sponsor.
Culture is the art-ticulated story of life here.
Culture is about relations and not relativist rants. So remember the next time you pick up the kitsching sink, culture isn't witty punctums, it's turning the ancestors up into the light so they may bloom. We're all here together, whether we like it or not.