Western Washington University Western CEDAR Window Magazine Western Publications Summer 2019 Window: The aM gazine of Western Washington University, 2019, Volume 11, Issue 03 Mary Lane Gallagher Western Washington University Office ofni U versity Communications and Marketing, Western Washington University Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/window_magazine Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Gallagher, Mary Lane and Office of University Communications and Marketing, Western Washington University, "Window: The Magazine of Western Washington University, 2019, Volume 11, Issue 03" (2019). Window Magazine. 23. https://cedar.wwu.edu/window_magazine/23 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Window Magazine by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY THEWINDOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE SUMMER 2019 Hometown Love A piece of the sky Renowned artist Sarah Sze came to Western in May for the unveiling of the university’s newest sculpture, Sze’s “Split Stone (Northwest).” The work is a single boulder, split in half, like two halves of an open geode. On the interior surfaces are photographic images of the sky at sunset, constructed from fragments of color incised into the cut face of the stone. The images on the two surfaces mirror each other, as if the boulder’s core held the fixed image of the sky. Youngsters from Western’s AS Child Development Center, who were studying rocks and pebbles, had the honor of officially unveiling the work. Sze, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 and represented the U.S.