Timelapse: Students help artist re-create sculpture

Western Washington University students worked with acclaimed Seattle artist John Grade to recreate his "Meridian, 2008" sculpture using tree limbs gathered from the Western campus.

On Wednesday, March 12, the wood work will be removed from its current home in the Western Gallery and placed in the bog behind Miller Hall on campus to slowly decompose and return to the earth. That event will start at 2 p.m. with Kit Spicer, interim dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts, celebrating the art and ecology students’ project. Visitors will be able to attend all afternoon to see the performance of the sculpture of wood being transferred back to nature.