Straight Shot
Straight Shot is a public art piece installed in 2007 at the Sand Point calibration baseline in Magnuson Park, Seattle. It was created by Seattle artist Perri Lynch and funded by the City of Seattle’s 1% for Art program, along with Trimble and the Washington Surveyors Association. The Sand Point baseline is older than Magnuson Park and originally sat at the western edge of the Navy’s Naval Air Station Seattle runway. The artwork helps people understand why the baseline matters to surveyors and to preserve it as part of the park, which was at risk of being destroyed. Locals nicknamed it “Linehenge.”
The sculpture consists of twelve dark limestone obelisks with hollow cylindrical holes that line up with the 1-kilometer baseline, stretching from the Lake Washington shoreline to the park’s northern edge. Start coordinates: 47°40′26.20299″N 122°15′06.20661″W. End coordinates: 47°40′59.73768″N 122°15′16.62911″W.
About the artist: Perri Lynch grew up in Massachusetts, studied at The Evergreen State College and the University of Washington, earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2009.
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