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Pike Place Public Market Totems

Raising the Totem into place.

Pike Place Public Market Totems

 Totem at the South End of the Victor Steinbrueck Park in Seattle, WA..
City of Seattle Public Arts Commission project at Seattle's Pike Place Public Market located in Victor Steinbrueck Park. This project was created in collaboration with Victor Steinbrueck and Richard Haag, who are both prominent Seattle area architects.

Click here for a slideshow of the Pike Place Public Market Totems.
 
 
Totem that now stands at the north end of the park just before being raised into place.

Belvedere Park at Pike Place Public Market

 Totem that now stands at the north end of the park just before being raised into place.
I was commissioned in 1983 by Architect Emeritus Victor Steinbrueck to complete the two 50 foot totem poles that he designed for the Belvedere Park at Pike Place Public Market. The figures on these two totem poles represent how important the Farmers Market is to the people of Seattle. The park that surrounds the totems represents a very necessary space that Victor Steinbrueck felt is essential to people that live in the city.
 
 
Victor Steinbrueck Park in Seatle, Washington.

Victor Steinbrueck Park

 The metaphorical figures on the totem at the north end of the park are: the bear, hawk, orca whale, human and raven.

The Victor Steinbrueck Park is built on top of a parking facility which made for some very special engineering challenges concerning the installation and mounting of the two 50 foot totem poles. You can see in the photos how the totems were lifted up and over by crane from below and outside, securing them to their concrete and steel columns.

The two figures at the top of the totem standing at the south end of the park honor the men and women that belong to the Honorary Farmers Market Association.

The metaphorical figures on the totem at the north end of the park are: bear, hawk, orca whale, human and raven.
 
 
The photographs on this page, and in the slideshows,
of James P. Bender's Totems in the Pike Place Public Market are courtesy of Mary Randlett.
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