To Grandmother's House

To Grandmother's House is an outdoor wooden sculpture by Patrick Gracewood, installed near the Southeast Park Avenue station in Oak Grove, an unincorporated area neighboring Milwaukie in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the United States. It depicts an older woman holding a rabbit in her arms and was carved from a 75-year-old cedar tree, cut down for construction of the MAX Orange Line, over three years. The sculpture was installed on April 29, 2015.

To Grandmother's House
The sculpture in 2019
ArtistPatrick Gracewood
Year2015 (2015)
TypeSculpture
MediumAtlas cedar, paint, weathering steel
LocationOak Grove, Oregon, United States
Coordinates45.430691°N 122.635486°W / 45.430691; -122.635486

Description and history

Portland artist Patrick Gracewood's To Grandmother's House is installed near the MAX Orange Line's Southeast Park Avenue MAX Station. Carved from a 75-year-old Atlas cedar tree over three years, the sculpture depicts an older woman holding a rabbit in her arms.[1] Additional materials include paint and weathering steel.[2] It was inspired by a photograph Gracewood took years before of his friend's German grandmother. The sculpture was installed on April 29, 2015 as the last of six artworks commissioned by TriMet near the MAX station, each created from trees cleared for the Orange Line.[1] Engineers set the piece on a cement pedestal, then placed it under a metal "treehouse",[2] or a canopy shaped like a tree.[1] According to Gracewood, To Grandmother's House "honors women and how they often hold communities together".[1]

See also

References
  1. Bancud, Michaela (May 5, 2015). "'To Grandmother's House' on the Orange Line". Portland Tribune. Archived from the original on November 15, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  2. "Public Art on MAX Orange Line". TriMet. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
External video
video icon Patrick Gracewood on YouTube (April 29, 2015), The Oregonian
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