Forest Deity is what sculptor Dudley Carter named it, and here we see it in its original native place – somewhere. Born in New Westminster, Canada in 1891 Carter spent much of the first half of his life as a forest engineer and a timber cruiser too. He learned the art of wood carving first as an adolescent by watching the Tlingit and Kwaquit Indians at it. The second half of his century (1891-1992) was spent sculpting. He was the first artist-in-residence with the King County Parks and Recreation Dept. He was then 96 years old. Somehow this rather large example of his work was moved for exhibition to an early Bellevue Arts and Crafts fair. I found it there thru historylink’s essay 2888. It shows a woman in a late 1940s dress standing beside it, and thereby helps one estimate its size, which you will see – if you look – will be bigger than it seems here – it seems to me. Where, I wonder, has it wandered to by now?”]CLICK TWICE to Enlarge
It is very rare to find a flat horizon in Sykes. Here a fissure or natural trench in the rock takes the place of a flowering bush. I will risk a hunch. This may be near or at the northeast corner of Soap Lake looking south.
